Two little bird’s stories
Just Joking (from The Instructor, WA May/June Edition 2002)
Once upon a time there was a non-conforming sparrow who decided not to fly south for the winter. However soon the weather turned so cold that he reluctantly started to fly south. In short time ice began to form on his wings and he fell in to a barn yard almost frozen. A cow passed by and crapped on the little bird.
The sparrow thought it was his end, but the manure warmed him and defrosted his wings. Warm and happy, able to breathe he started to sing. Just then a large cat came by and hearing the chirping investigated the sound. The cat cleared away the manure, found the chirping bird and promptly ate him up. The moral of the story:
1. Everyone who shits on you is not necessarily your enemy.
2. Everyone who gets you out of the shit is not necessarily your friend.
3. If you are warm and happy in a pile of shit - keep your mouth shut.
Right-of-reply (by Dieter Fischer, an SA instructor who could not help himself telling the full story).
The true events happened this way:
The big bad cat was jealous of the birds, because they could fly high into the air. In her anger she persuaded the sparrows to fly in the wrong direction, where they all perished. Except one non-conforming little sparrow. It did not listen to the cat and flew south to safety on it’s own every year
The cat hated that one non-conforming sparrow more than all the others. She conspired with another cat to ambush and kill it outside its nest. The little bird was a hard worker. As it was just feeding his young, the cats jumped onto the nest in order to eat up the entire family.
But they didn’t know that the big eagle had known of the conspiracy all along. With one mighty swoop it grabbed the two cats and carried them away. The eagle family feasted on the cats for 7 days
.The little sparrow was not alone any more when flying south every year for the winter.
And the moral of the story
:1. Just because everyone does it, ain’t make it right.
2. Non-conformists get the job done, often without saying a word.
3. If you do right, someone is always watching over you.