The Scorpion and the Turtle

A Scorpion, being a very poor swimmer, Asked a turtle to carry him on his back across a river. "Are you mad?" Exclaimed the Turtle. "You will sting me while I'm Swimming and I'll drown.
"My dear turtle", laughed the scorpion, "if I were to sting you, we would both drown. Now where is the logic in that?"

"Your right!" said the turtle. "hop on!" The scorpion climbed aboard and halfway across the river gave the turtle a mighty sting. As they both sank to the bottom, the turtle resignedly said:

"Do you mind if I ask you something? You said there'd be no logic in your stinging me. Why did you do it?"

"It has nothing to do with logic", the drowning Scorpion sadly replied. "It's Just my character."



THE GIRL AND THE SNAKE


A girl is walking down a cold wintry country road when she spies a snake, shivering in the chill. He pleads with her to carry him in her coat so that he doesn't freeze to death. The girl replies that she cannot trust the snake, and that he will surly bite her if she puts him inside her jacket, but in the end agrees to save him from the cold.
She gently scooped him up and puts him inside her jacket to keep him warm and continues on her walk. She hardly goes far when she feels a sharp pain in her side, and feels the poison begin to take hold. The snake drops out of the coat and begins to slither away.

She gasps for breath and utters a pleading sob. "Why?" she says with sadness "I took care of you, let you close to me."
The snake simply replies "You knew what I was when you met me. You should have trusted your instincts."