A young boy, about eight years old, was at
the corner "Mom & Pop" grocery store picking out a pretty good size box of
laundry detergent. The grocer walked over and, trying to be friendly, asked the boy if he
had a lot of laundry to do.
"Oh, no laundry," the boy said.
"I'm going to wash my dog."
"But you shouldn't use this to wash
your dog. It's very powerful and if you wash your dog in this, he'll get sick. In fact, it
might even kill him."
But the boy was not to be stopped and
carried the detergent to the counter and paid for it, even as the grocer still tried to
talk him out of washing his dog.
About a week later the boy was back in the
store to buy some candy. The grocer asked the boy how his dog was doing.
"Oh, he died," the boy said.
The grocer, trying not to be an
I-told-you-so, said he was sorry the dog died but added, "I tried to tell you not to
use that detergent on your dog."
"Well," the boy replied, "I
don't think it was the detergent that killed him."
