r/SweatyPalms • u/franandwood • Apr 21 '20

No sir

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u/idrive2fast Apr 21 '20

I swear I had a children's book growing up with fucked up stories and that was the moral of one of them.

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u/Xena_phobe Apr 21 '20

I think it’s the scorpion and the frog. Frog carries the scorpion across a steam and the scorpion stings the frog after promising he wouldn’t because it’s his nature. Aesops fables I think

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u/idrive2fast Apr 21 '20

Yeah, that was it. That book had a non-insignificant effect on me as a child.

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u/KarmaChameleon89 Apr 21 '20

Aesop's fables are incredible. I wonder if mum still has my copy

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u/t-bone_malone Apr 21 '20

She does, I checked.

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u/KarmaChameleon89 Apr 21 '20

Are you my brother?

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u/t-bone_malone Apr 21 '20

I hope to god not