Donkey was walking through the woods one day. He saw a sign.

“I wonder what the sign says?” he asked himself.

When he got close enough, he saw that it read, “DO NOT STICK YOUR FOOT INTO THE LOOP ON THE GROUND, WHATEVER YOU DO.”

“Sign, you sound just like my mother,” Donkey told the sign. “I’ll show you!”

With all of his pent up anger for his mother, he stuck his foot in the loop. Immediately, the rope snatched Donkey up into the air. As he hung upside down, getting a blood rush, he began to call for help.

“Help!” he cried. “Somebody made me stick my foot into a loop, and now I’m stuck upside down!”

His cries were so bothersome and incessant, that Orangutan, who lived nearby, came by and let him down.

“You’d better be grateful that I have an opposable thumb,” Orangutan told them as he let him down roughly, dropping him on his head. “Next time listen to the sign.”

“You sound like my mother,” Donkey told him, vowing right then and there to disobey the next sign that the read.

Donkey continued to wonder on through the woods without purpose. Pretty soon he discovered another sign. Determined to spite Orangutan, he went up to the sign. It read, “UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU EVER PUT YOUR FOOT IN THE RUSTY METAL BEAR TRAP BESIDE THIS SIGN.”

“I’ll show you, Orangutan!” he shouted. Then, he plunged his foot into the bear trap. Obviously, it snapped shut. Since it hurt something fierce, he began to plead for help.

Orangutan was still the nearest creature. He came near to donkey. Then, he took out some earplugs and began to laugh.

Moral: A fool never learns from his mistakes; a wise man learns to laugh at him.