One Sunday as I was napping on the back porch, I heard a bunch of
screaming out in the woods behind the house. Hmm. What could that
be about I wonder? Stepping into the kitchen I picked up my .22 rifle
and headed out to investigate. About two miles into the trees I came to the little pond where I sometimes go to catch bream and catfish.
There was a man walking back and forth with two buckets of water, dipping out of the deep end, walking the length of the pond and pouring into the shallow end of the small pond. Each time he poured in a bucket of water he would cuss, yell and throw the buckets down
In frustration.
“Excuse me sir, what are you doing out here and why all the noise on beautiful day like this”?
The stranger looked at me as if I were crazy and said “I am here to fix this pond".
“But sir, there is nothing wrong with the pond! It’s perfect, it’s full of catfish, bream and is spring fed by the aquifer”.
“Nothing wrong with it? Nothing wrong with it? Are you blind mister”? “Sure, this is end is nice, but look at the other end, it’s shallow and muddy and has no vegetation like this end. This pond is out of balance and I am here to make it nice on both ends and in the middle as well”! “But, every time I take water out of the deep end and pour it into the shallow end, it all just levels out again, I’m stumped, but I know I can come up with the solution, I just know it”!
“But sir, you are tramping all over the frog habitat on the shallow end of the pond! If you keep this up, the frogs will die, the fish will die and the pond will stagnate”!
“Now look fellow! I know it may not be a perfect plan, but it’s the one I came up with. I happen to be in charge here. I’m from the government and I’m here to help you”! By the way mister, is that gun loaded? Do you have a permit for it? I can’t believe we have people walking around in the woods with a loaded gun! What is your name”?
"This is another problem we are going to have to fix, just as soon as I get done with this pond"!
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