A young fellow
who had just spent his entire life savings to make a dream come
true took possession of his brand-new Ferrari and immediately
took the car out to road-test it.
He was tearing
down a country lane, up-shifting, down-shifting, braking, and
accelerating through the curves when he passed a young woman
driving the other direction in an old pickup truck. She yelled
"Pig" at him as he went by.
Not to be outdone, he yelled back at her: "Cow!"
Then just as
he rounded a bend in the road, he ran smack into a 300-pound
sow, totalling out his new toy. Fortunately, the young man wasn't
hurt terribly -- at least not physically.
He did realize (although it was a minute or so late) that things
aren't always what they seem at first blush. And sometimes when
life seems least fair, it's still being kinder to us than we
probably deserve.
Look twice
before you leap. Or at least, slow down.