THE USED BOOT

  

    An used boot was abandoned near an anthill. The ants approached and their queen said:

   -Drag this object into our anthill to our specialist scientist ants study its utility.

  And while the worker ants obeyed their queen, they talked between them. One of them asked:

   -Wasn’t this object used by the man to walk?

   Other ant answered:

   -As far as I know, it was.  

   And the ant said:

   -Then if we enter this object and fix its internal mechanism maybe it ride us, rather than we ride it.

   But the other ant answered:

   -This is a boot, but isn’t a car.      

   (Osmar Batista Leal)

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