Monday, September 25, 2017

Getting His Gloat; an Underfable



          Getting His Gloat


          Once upon a time, a Villain tied a Hero to the target of his Death-Ray Machine. The Villain paused to gloat at the Hero in his clutches. He laughed in the Hero’s face.
The Villain spoke at great length of his greatness and his destiny, and of the Hero’s inferiority and imminent doom. The Hero listened politely, but eventually he rolled his eyes and said, eroHe
“Get on with it!”
          The Villain nodded, then turned around to trigger the Death Ray. But as he turned his back, the Hero slipped out of his bonds, for he had untied the knots before the Villain’s rant started, and had been waiting for it to end.
          The Villain turned back and saw that the Hero had gotten clean away. The Villain said, “Curses!”

          Moral: Whatever you’re doing, please do it.

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