NOT MY PROBLEM

A little mouse living on a farm was looking through a crack in the wall

one day and saw the farmer and his wife opening a package. The mouse was

intrigued by what food the package may contain. He was aghast to

discover that it was a mousetrap. The mouse ran to the farmyard warning

everyone "there is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in

the house."

The chicken raised his head and said "Mr. Mouse, I can tell you this

trap is a grave concern to you, but it has no consequence to me and I

cannot be bothered with it."

The mouse turned to the pig "I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse, but the trap

is no concern of mine either!" The mouse then turned to the bull;

"sounds like you have a problem Mr. Mouse, but not one that concerns

me."

The mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected that no one

would help him or has concerned about his dilemma.

He knew he had to face the trap on his own. That night the sound of a

trap catching its prey was heard throughout the house. The farmer's wife

rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness she could not see that it

was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.

The snake bit the farmer's wife. The wife caught a bad fever and the

farmer knew the best way to treat a fever was with chicken soup. The

farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard to get the soup's main

ingredient.

The wife got sicker and friends and neighbors came by to take turns

sitting with her round the clock. The farmer knew he had to feed them,

so he butchered the pig.

The farmer wife did not get better, in fact she died and so many friends

and family came to her funeral that the farmer had to slaughter the bull

to feed all of them.

So the next time we hear that one of our teammates is facing a problem

and think it does not concern or effect us, let us remember that when

anyone of us is in trouble, we are all at risk.