I Love This Oldie About Corporate Life
After a long journey trying to cross a vast land, Joe got totally lost and decided to stop at the next small farm to ask for directions. The farmer answered the door and explained, the best he could, how Joe should backtrack all the way to the nearest highway.
"So far, so good," thought Joe as he was walking back to his car. It was then that he noticed a miserable three-legged pig that was also pulling a makeshift wooden leg behind it, as it was trying, painfully and unsuccessfully, to keep up with the other pigs in the pen. Upset at that extraordinary sight, Joe decided he had to return and ask some troubling questions.
"What, that pig?" the farmer retorted. "That, my friend, is a wonderful pig. Two years ago, that brilliant pig pulled our baby boy out of a burning barn, taking a huge risk to save our only son's life."
"Yes, but..." Joe tried to counter.
"The following summer," the farmer continued, "that dedicated, loving pig, saved my own life by throwing me a rope while I was drunk and sinking in the swamp, down there."
"Yes, but, the leg..." Joe was still trying to get in the conversation.
"And just last month," the farmer pressed on, "that beautiful, smart pig warned us that an earthquake was coming, so that we all were able to get out of that other barn you see in a pile down the other side - and saved everybody's life, all sixteen of us."
"Yes, yes, I understand," Joe yelled on top of his lungs, "but what about the leg that's been torn off, and that horrible wooden peg? I can't imagine.... No one could comprehend the pain... What about that?"
"Well, my friend," the farmer said with a calm smile and an all knowing wink, "you can't possibly eat that kind of a pig in one go!"
