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    --- At dawn the telephone rings:

     

    "Hello, Senor Rod? This is Ernesto the caretaker

    at your country house."

     

    "Ah yes, Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there

    a problem?"

     

    "Um, I am just calling to advise you, Senor

    Rod,that your parrot died.

     

    "My parrot? Dead? The one that won the international competition?"

     

    "Si, Senor,that's the one."

     

    "Damn! That's a pity! I spent a small fortune

    on that bird. What did he die from?"

     

    "From eating rotten meat, Senor Rod"

     

    "Rotten meat? Who the hell fed him rotten

    meat?"

     

    "Nobody, Senor. He ate the meat of the dead

    horse."

     

    "Dead horse? What dead horse?"

     

    "The thoroughbred, Senor Rod."

     

    "My prize thoroughbred is dead?"

     

    "Yes Senor Rod, he died from all that work

    pulling the water cart."

     

    "Are you insane? What water cart?"

     

    "The one we used to put out the fire, Senor"

     

    "Good Lord! What fire are you talking about,

    man?"

     

    "The one at your house, Senor! A candle fell and

    the curtains caught on fire"

     

    "What the hell??....Are you saying that my

    mansion is destroyed because of a candle??!!!

     

    "Yes Senor Rod."

     

    "But there's electricity at the house!!! What

    was the candle for?"

     

    "For the funeral, Senor Rod."

     

    " WHAT BLOODY FUNERAL?!"

     

    "Your wife's, Senor Rod... She showed up one

    night out of the blue and I thought she was a thief, so I hit her with your new Tiger Woods Nike

    Driver."

     

    SILENCE...................

    LONG SILENCE...............

     

    "Ernesto, if you broke that driver, you're in deep shit!! "

     

     

     

     

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    I don't usually like these heartwarming stories, but this one is truly interesting...

     

     

     

     

     

    In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Mbembe approached it very carefully.

    He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Mbembe worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.

    The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Mbembe stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.

    Mbembe never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

    Twenty years later, Mbembe was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Mbembe and his son Tapu were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Mbembe, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.

    Remembering the encounter in 1986, Mbembe couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. Mbembe summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Mbembe' s legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.

    Probably wasn't the same elephant.

     

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