STRIKE 2005
Daily Update - Local Lodge 2766
6 Jan 2006
Today's update comes from an excerpt
of an email sent to the Local by a true Union Brother from the PACE Local in Courtland,
AL (Thanks again for your continued support!). Anyhow, this is a cute story that
is a pretty good illustration on why it pays to stick together...
On Solidarity...
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open
a package.
"What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover
it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning.
"There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell
this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me.I cannot be bothered
by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There
is a mousetrap in the house!"
The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing
I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is
a mousetrap in the house!"
The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down, sad, and dejected, to face the farmer's
mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap
catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the
darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.
The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she
returned home with a fever. Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken
soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.
But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her
around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral,
the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them. The mouse
looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness. If they
only had cared...
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern
you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one
another and make an extra effort to encourage one another