Burden | Failure | Weakness

CONFUSION
A middle-aged woman was sitting in her den when all of a sudden a small black snake crawled across the floor and under the courch. The dear lady, who was deathly afraid of snakes, promptly ran to the bathroom to get her husband, who was taking a shower. The man of the house came running from the shower to the den with only a towel around his waist. The man took an old broom handle and began poking under the couch to retrieve the snake. At that point the family dog, who had been sleeping, awoke and became excited. In the dog’s frenzy over the actions of the husband, the little terrier touched his cold nose to the back of the man’s heel. Instead of realizing what had happened, the man surmised that the snake had out-manoevered him and bitten him on the heel. He fainted dead away. The wife sprang into action. She concluded that her husband, because of the physical exertion…