An important life lesson that I’ve been learning the hard way:
A scorpion is sitting near the edge of a creek. A frog approaches, and the scorpion asks him for a ride across the creek.
“No I won’t give you a ride. You’ll sting me.” Says the frog.
The scorpion assures the frog that he won’t be stung, as they would both die. The frog eventually agrees and let’s the scorpion climb aboard. About halfway across the creek the scorpion stings the frog.
“Why did you do that? Now we’ll both die.” Asks the frog.
The scorpion replies, “I can’t help it. I’m a scorpion.”
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1 Frog Pictures // Jan 20, 2009 at 5:01 am
I recall a couple of Aesop’s Fables with similar morals to the story.
You got to wonder why the frog would agree in the first place, as there was nothing in it for him. He could have swum across the creek himself.
2 Mundane Blogger - Blogspot Blog // Oct 28, 2011 at 8:49 am
Ha! I’ve never heard the tale of the Scorpion and the Frog before. It just shows how you’re true self usually surfaces - even when trying to be nice and/or change for the better. To me, it also shows how you shouldn’t trust anybody 100% (perhaps there are some rare exceptions) and how things can have a way of coming back and biting you in the ass, well, in this case…sting and kill you… Anyway, I suppose that is what the friendly frog gets for being nice to the wicked scorpion!
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