Fable

I am going to tell you a story with a moral. Will it be the tale of the neglected science fair? No. What about the neglected book report? NO.

You are about to hear a tale so terrifying that it made me scream a girly scream. Are you ready?

Sure?

Ok.

Once upon a time there was a girl. Her kind of dad told her to take a bag of garbage outside to the curb so the trash people could pick it up. It was dark outside. The girl, so young and foolish, was not afraid. She went bare-footed out into the night. After a short and rather un-inspiring 5 feet to the curb the girl bent over to place her bag of trash on the ground. She happened to glance up at the bag of garbage already out there. And what did whe see? A RAT! That's right, a big fat disease carrying rat! It scurried out of the trash bag and ran away.


What did the girl do?

She screamed a girly scream and ran back into the house as fast as her woefully bare feet would carry her.

What can we learn from this story? For what is a fable but a story with a lesson?

Moral: Never go outside at night bare-foot in Ho Chi Minh City. Or any city for that matter.