![]() He starts picking on the ants, pointing out how they can’t share their food or shelter with a deprived soul. As winter arrives, the shivering and starved grasshopper calls for a press conference, complaining he has no food to eat. The ants work extremely hard and build a house (an ant hill) to protect them during the harsh winter months. Now, let’s enact a funny modern version of the same story―the ants work hard gathering food for winter, while the grasshopper laughs at them, and enjoys his summer to the fullest. He finally learns his lesson of working hard for a living. Winter arrives―the ants have food, the grasshopper has none. We’ve all heard the famous ant and the grasshopper story, the one in which the grasshopper is singing and dancing all summer wasting his time, while the ants are busy collecting food to secure themselves for winter. Jim: “Honey, what’s for dinner?” Jane: (No response) Jim: (partly convinced, he asks again at a distance of 40 feet) “Darling, what’s for dinner?” Jane: (No response) Jim: (at a distance of 30 feet) “Honey, what’s for dinner?” Jane: (No response) Jim: (at a distance of 20 feet) “Honey, what’s for dinner?” Jane: (No response) Jim: (at a distance of 10 feet) “Darling, what’s for dinner?” Jane: (No response) Jim: (giving it his last try, he stands right behind her and asks) “What are you preparing for dinner, Jane?” Jane: Jim, for the fifth time I am telling you, PRAWNS. He remembered what the doctor had suggested and thought of executing the plan at that very moment. On returning home in the evening, Jane was preparing dinner. Jim rushed to work after the meet with the doctor. Jim: Oh! That would indeed solve my problem. That is how you will understand if she really has a hearing problem or not. Ask her the same question standing at a distance of 40 feet, then 30, 20, and so on, until she answers your question. Ask her a question, any question, from a distance of about 50 feet. I wanted to know how could I be sure of her problem. I suspect my wife cannot hear well anymore. I am Jim Colesman Doctor: Good Morning Mr. He wanted proof before letting her know that she had a hearing problem. To avoid arguments assuming that she wouldn’t accept the fact, Jim decided to consult a doctor before approaching Jane. Now, Jim suspected that Jane was growing deaf. Jim was fun-loving, witty, and over confident, while Jane was understanding, loving, and patient. The husband Jim and wife Jane lived in a small town in New York. There lived a couple who had been married for 30 years. The lion was just 5 steps away, when he saw the dog chewing the same bone. The lion looked furious, and the look on his face was enough to let the dog know what had happened. He then saw the lion heading towards him once again, with the monkey on his back. He sat there patiently waiting to watch what was about to happen. The dog spotted the monkey running away, and speculated the monkey’s plan. Becoming friends with the lion will ensure my safety in this jungle as well.” The monkey jumped off the tree and sped away to meet the lion. The monkey thought to himself, “If I inform the lion of how this dog fooled him, we’d become friends. A monkey sitting on that tree was a spectator to this little event. He sat there peacefully chewing his bone. ![]() He hunted down a lion? Let me get out of here before he makes me his next meal.” As the lion left, the dog breathed a sigh of relief. Surprised with what the dog had said, the lion thought to himself, “This dog seems pretty brave. On hearing this, the lion traced back his steps. Taking one bone in his mouth, he yelled with all his might, “Wow, this lion was delicious! If only I got one more lion to eat, it would satisfy my hunger for the night.” After 2 minutes, he came up with an ingenious plan. He kept pondering about how to get out of this crisis. The dog thought to himself, “I am too small to fight this lion, and there’s little chance he wouldn’t spot me in the next 5 minutes”. To his dismay, he saw a lion advancing towards the tree. He then slapped the cap seller hard, snatched the cap he had flung to the ground, climbed back onto the tree and shouted, “You’re not the only one who had a grandfather!” Skit # 2: The Dog, the Monkey, and the Lion On doing this, one monkey got off the tree and came to the ground. He finally took off his hat and threw it on the ground, just as his grandfather had. The monkeys took off their caps and waved them back at him. He took off his hat and waved it to them. ![]() Since he was aware of that incident, he decided to trick the monkeys into doing the same thing. When he woke up, he was faced with the same situation his grandfather had to face two decades ago. One fine day, he wasn’t feeling too well, and happened to take a nap under the same tree, that his grandfather had chosen 20 years ago. He took the same jungle route back home every afternoon. Infocard: After 20 years, the cap seller’s grandson, took up the same profession.
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