Once
upon a time in a nice little forest, there lived an
orphaned bunny and an orphaned snake. By surprising
coincidence both were blind from birth. One day, the
bunny was hopping through the forest, and the snake
was slithering through the forest, when the bunny
tripped over the snake and fell down. This, of course,
knocked the snake about quite a bit.
'Oh, my,' said the bunny, 'I'm terribly sorry. I didn't
mean to hurt you. I've been blind since birth, so,
I can't see where I'm going. In fact, since I'm also
an orphan, I don't even know what I am.'
'It's
quite OK,' replied the snake. 'Actually, my story
is much the same as yours. I, too, have been blind
since birth, and also never knew my mother. Tell you
what, maybe I could slither all over you, and work
out what you are, so at least you'll have that going
for you.'
'Oh,
that would be wonderful,' replied the bunny. So the
snake slithered all over the bunny, and said, 'Well,
you're covered with soft fur; you have really long
ears; your nose twitches; and you have a soft cottony
tail. I'd say that you must be a bunny rabbit.'
'Oh,
thank you! Thank you,' cried the bunny in obvious
excitement.
The
bunny suggested to the snake, 'Maybe I could feel
you all over with my paw, and help you the same way
you've helped me.' So the bunny felt the snake all
over, and remarked, 'Well, you're scaly and smooth,
and you have a forked tongue, no backbone and no balls.
I'd say you must be either an accountant, or possibly
someone in senior management.'
