Ron Reads Boring Books
Are you tired? You will be. Because I will read to you a boring book and it will be worse than you doing nothing. This podcast is not intended to entertain you. It is intended to bore you. The length of each podcast will vary so you cannot plan your listening easily. Some reads will be short. Some will be excruciatingly long. There will be no intro or outro music. The only sound is my voice and other random sounds as they happen. I change my voice as I read the dialog. Also, I have a southern accent and do not read well. Thank you for listening.
Ron Reads Boring Books
Donkey Business: A Lesson in Ignoring Public Opinion
Ron Reeds brings to life Aesop's timeless fable "The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey," exploring how trying to please everyone leads to pleasing no one. The story follows a father and son's journey to market with their donkey, where their attempts to accommodate everyone's criticism lead to disaster.
• A man and his son initially walk alongside their donkey to market
• A countryman criticizes them for not riding the animal
• When the boy rides, they're criticized for making the father walk
• When the father rides, women shame him for making his son trudge along
• When both ride, townspeople accuse them of overloading the donkey
• Their final solution—carrying the tied-up donkey—ends in tragedy
• The fable concludes with the moral: "Please all and you will please none"
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Hello, are you tired? You will be. This is Ron Reeds. Today I'm going to be reading a series of fables from Aesop. The first fable is the man, the boy and the donkey.
Speaker 1:A man and his son were once going with their donkey to the market. As they were walking along by its side, a countryman passed them and said you fools, what is a donkey for but to ride upon? So the man put the boy on the donkey and they went on their way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said See that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides. So the man ordered his boy off and got on himself. So the man ordered his boy off and got on himself. But they hadn't gone far when they passed two women, one of whom said to the other Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little son trudge along. Well, the man didn't know what to do, but at last he took his boy up before him on the donkey.
Speaker 1:By this time they had come to the town and the passerby began to jeer and point at them. The man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said Aren't you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor donkey of yours, you and your hulking son. The man and the boy, got off and tried to think what to do. They thought and they thought till, at last, they cut down a pole, tied the donkey's feet to it and raised the pole and the donkey to their shoulders.
Speaker 1:They went along amid the laughter of all who met them till they came to the market bridge when the donkey, getting one of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the boy to drop his end of the pole. In the struggle, the donkey fell over the bridge and his four feet being tied together, he was drowned. That'll teach you, said an old woman who had followed them. Please all and you will please none. This has been a fable from Aesop the man, the boy and the donkey. Please give us a five-star rating, a good review, and share Ron Reads with someone you know who is in desperate need. Thank you.