Mousetrap
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see
the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food
might this contain?"
He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed
the warning. "There is a mousetrap in the house!
There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head
and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern
to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be
bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is
a mousetrap in the house." The pig sympathized, but
said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing
I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my
prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow. She said "Wow, Mr.
Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and
dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the
house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its
prey.
The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.
In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous
snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit
the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital,
and she returned home with a fever.
Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken
soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard
for the soup's main ingredient. But his wife's sickness
continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with
her around the clock.
To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The
farmer's wife did not get well; she died.
So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had
the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
Do keep this simple story in mind next time you are asked to consider
something you think is 'not your problem'.
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