From the bearable parable

I’m not into every forwarded message on Whatsapp but there are some guys in the circle of friends and acquaintances whose messages are worth reading. I’m sharing here one of them that really took my fancy and made me fall about uncontrollably. It’s about a man intended to buy a donkey. He visited every market far and wide but didn’t like the one he was in search of. Then he hears about a woman known for selling donkeys at a much higher price than the market. However, the donkeys she sold were worth spending money on. When she showed one of the donkeys to the man, his jaw dropped because he hadn’t seen such a beautiful donkey during his entire quest. But when the lady asked for 10 k for it, his jaw dropped even more as he had never thought of a donkey to be that expensive. As the man had already been frustrated not having found a donkey of his choice, he didn’t take long to decide to buy it. So, he paid the demanded amount to the woman and got the donkey. Funnily enough, the donkey dropped dead the very next day.

Man being indignant got back to the lady like a bat out of hell and told her about the donkey. He first asked the lady angrily that why she had sold him such a donkey that couldn’t live for more than a day, then he cried bitterly and shouted, “I’ve been palmed off, I’ve been ripped off, I’ve been ripped off …. His trembling voice with tearful eyes lamenting for his fate finally melted the lady’s heart. She said, “Stop crying like a baby! I’m sorry for your loss, but I can’t return all your money but half of it,” “You go your home running and bring the dead donkey to me.” The poor guy brought back the dead donkey after a while and gave it to the lady. The lady then spruced it up and made an announcement that she wanted to hold a ballot on it. Next day, she made the dead donkey stand outside of her house. When people gathered, she said, “Pay only rupees 100 and win this perfect donkey.” Everyone standing there was nonplused as none believed what they had just heard from the lady was true.

The lady then asked them to write their names on a small piece of paper which she put in a box at the end. All paid the money and when this got over, she put her hand in the box and got a piece of paper out of it and announced a name. The one whose name came was over the moon. But when he tried to walk the donkey it dropped dead. “Oh God! My donkey …!  The man cried. Just then the lady said, “Just your luck poor guy. “I might have also died if that had happened to me”, said the lady. When donkey winner stopped whining and left, the lady sent for that person she promised his money back. When the guy got half the amount, he couldn’t help feeling relieved and asking how it all had happened. The lady smirked and blew him off giving a blow-by-blow account from scratch.