Posted by clark On the third day, God created the monkey. He said to the monkey, "The monkey has to entertain people and make them laugh by doing monkey tricks. I will give you a 20 year life span." On the fourth day, God created man and said to him, "Your job is to sleep, eat, and play. All you need to do is to enjoy yourself and have a good time. I will give you a 20 year life span."
on January 6, 2002, 4:15 pm
Watch What You Ask For
On the very first day, God created the cow. He said to the cow, "As a cow, you must go to the field with the farmer, to work all day under the sun! I will give you a life span of 50 years."
Cow objected "What? This is the kind of tough life you want me to live for 50 years? Let me have just 20 years, and I will give 30 years back to you." So God agreed.
On the second day, God created the dog. God said to the dog, "What you are supposed to do is to sit all day by the door of your house. You will have to bark at any people that come in! I will give you a life span of 20 years!"
Dog objected. "What? Twenty years and all I do is all day long is sit by the door? No way! Please just give me 10 years of life!" So God agreed.
Monkey objected. "What? Make people laugh? Do monkey faces and tricks? Ten years is enough, and the other 10 years you can keep." So God agreed.
The man objected. "What? Such a good life! Eat, play, sleep, and have a good time! Sounds great! Yet you only give me 20 years. No way, man! Why don't we make a deal? Since Cow gave you back 30 years, Dog gave you back 10 years and Monkey gave you back 10 years, I will take them from you! That makes my life span 70 years, right?" So God agreed.
And that is why... In our first 20 years, we eat, sleep, play, enjoy the best and not do much else. For the next 30 years, we work all day long, suffer and get to support the family. For the next 10 years, we entertain our grandchildren by making monkey faces and monkey tricks. And for the last 10 years, we stay at home, sit in front of the door and bark at people.
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