Once there was a man who was walking around the beach one day when he saw a shiny shell by the shores. This shell looked very different from all the other shells that he had seen before. What he did not know was this shell was special. It had interesting powers giving anyone who owned it, the power to multiply whatever one had or thought about by the number of rubs done on the shell. For example, let us say a person had one guitar and he rubbed the shell 5 times, it would multiply the guitar by 5 times and the person would now end up with six guitars.
It did not take long for him to figure out what he needed to do to the shell. The shell with special powers had an inscription on it written ‘rub me’ and as soon as he rubbed the shell, an extra set of earphones suddenly appeared on his hand; making him have 2 sets of earphones. It was then that he realized what he had just stumbled upon.
Happy to have found a new treasure, he ran home to touch everything that he wanted multiplied and increased. From his clothes to his furniture….and anything he could lay his hands on in his house. Unfortunately for him, he was a very irresponsible man and he never seemed to keep any job for long and as such, he did not have any money to touch and multiply.
Without any money, he got a very interesting thought.
‘What if I gave myself more hands? I would assign different hands to do different tasks thus allowing me to do more work in a short time, he thought, ‘And that way, I will make quite a bit of money within such a short time and I will then be able to multiply it with my special shell.’
Well for a minute, things seemed to go as planned but his additional hands just kept rubbing the shell by mistake giving him more and more hands than he had wanted to have. The hands just kept growing all over his body that soon, there was no part of the body that did not have an extra hand popping out of it.
No matter what he did, the hands just kept on growing and growing that eventually he could not even breathe and he was at this point sadly squished to his death.
Moral: Think through your plans carefully.
