A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa, taking her
faithful aged Shepherd named Booker, along for the company.
One day the dog starts chasing butterflies and before long, Booker discovers
that he's lost Wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his
direction with the intention of having lunch.
The old Shepherd thinks, "Oh, oh! I'm in deep doo-doo now!" Noticing some
bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones
with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is about to leap the
old Shepherd exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I wonder
if there are any more around here?"
Hearing this, the young leopard halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of
terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees "Whew!", says the
leopard, "That was close! That old Shepherd nearly had me!"
Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree,
figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from
the leopard.
So off he goes, but the old Shepherd sees him heading after the leopard with
great speed, and figures that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up
with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the
leopard
The young leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here, monkey,
hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving canine!"
Now, the old Shepherd sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and
thinks, "What am I going to do now?", but instead of running, the dog sits
down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them yet, and
just when they get close enough to hear, the old Shepherd says:
"Where's that damn monkey? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another
leopard!"
Moral of this story...
Don't mess with old farts...age and treachery will always overcome youth and
skill! BS and brilliance only come with age and experience!
If you don't send this to five "old" friends right away there will be five
fewer people laughing in the world.
I am in no way insinuating that any of you (us!) are old, some are just more
"youth challenged" than others!!
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