The tale of the donkey’s trick. A donkey was happily grazing in the fields when two birds came along to chat with him. The birds were tweeting by the fields looking to trick the donkey. They wanted to get him to eat some poop, all because they were looking for a good laugh.
The birds came to the donkey claiming that they could make the donkey become a bird, able to fly across the skies. The birds told the donkey that they too used to be donkeys. All he had to do was eat some special food that turned them into beautiful birds.
The donkey was not one to be tricked so easily though. Instead, he just played along with the birds knowing full well that this was a trick. When the donkey asked the birds to be taken to where he could get this special food; the birds thought that they had managed to trick the donkey. They looked at each other smiling and whispering to each other. The two birds excitedly told the donkey, “follow us”.
They walked for a while until they got to a cave. Which was just outside the town. When they got inside the cave, the donkey realized that it was a bat cave. He wondered to himself, “what are these birds up to?”. They walked further on until they got to a place inside the cave that had a heap full of bat poop. It was at this point that the birds said to the donkey, “Here it is, this is the stuff that will turn you into a beautiful bird just like us.”
Playing along with the birds, the donkey requested the birds to taste the ‘special food’. He wanted them to prove to him that it was okay for him to take it and that it would not have any side effects. And because the birds did not want to look like they were tricking the donkey, they agreed to do a taste test to show the donkey that all was good.
It was at this point that the donkey’s trick worked. The donkey started laughing so hard that all the bats that were in the cave woke up and started laughing along with the donkey.
Moral: Be careful of who you trick.
