Morality Tale

Lake Jackson made the TV news last week with word that visiting hours at Wildnerness Park had been adjusted thanks to people having sex in public.
This was not a win-win proposition.
The Lake Jackson City Council, in moving to protect the citizenry from the spectacle of public intercourse, did not receive kudos from an appreciative Houston-area TV audience for its moralistic stand. Rather, "The City of Enchantment" is now, at least for awhile, branded as that ya-hoo town where people have sex in the city parks, right where you can see them if look around long enough. Man, you can't buy advertising like that.
The developments reminded some long-time residents of the years when Dunbar Park was the preferred meeting place for illicit sex, usually of the homosexual variety. Dunbar Park, as far we know, never made the Channel 13 News, however.
Anyhow, the goings on at Wilderness Park also brought to our collective feeble mind the following morality tale that goes like this...

An old man, a boy and a donkey were going to town. The boy rode on
the donkey and the old man walked. As they went along they passed some
people who remarked it was a shame the old man was walking and the boy
was riding.

The man and boy thought maybe the critics were right, so they
changed positions. Later, they passed some people that remarked, "What a
shame,
he makes that little boy walk."

They then decided they both would walk! Soon they passed some
more people who thought they were stupid to walk when they had a decent
donkey to ride. So, they both rode the donkey.

Now they passed some people that shamed them by saying how
awful to put such a load on a poor donkey.
The boy and man said they were probably right, so they decided
to carry the donkey. As they crossed the bridge, they lost their grip on
the animal and he fell into the river and drowned.


The moral of the story?


If you try to please everyone, you might as well kiss your ass
good-bye!