Saturday, April 29, 2006

Modernization, Can you guess of what?

Once there was a college student who needed a place to stay for the summer while he worked on his Marine Bio Thesis. His Professor said, I have a very nice house right on the beach that you can use for the summer; it will give to great access to the beach to collect samples. I need a house sitter while I am traveling for the summer to take care of my back yard. It has a lot of fruit trees and flowers that I love. Please water it twice a week and pick the fruit when it looks ripe. And pull the weeds from the flower beds.

The college student was very excited to be able to stay at a beach house for free because his research project was going to take up a lot of his time and he didn’t want to get a job. Also the house was beautiful, and big, with lots of bedrooms and a large kitchen, and pool. The weeks of summer went by and the college student really enjoyed the house. He had big parties there and never cleaned up after them, thinking the professor is going to be gone for so long it doesn’t really matter if I don’t take care of the house. Chips, salsa and beer got ground into the rug.

A neighbor noticed that the backyard was looking poorly as between the parties and the research the college student never tended it. And went next door to inquire because he knew how much the professor loved his garden. Though the college student was home, he pretended not to be and didn’t answer the door. He threw away the note the neighbor left as well and never answered the phone. The house was looking in such bad condition after the many parties 3 different neighbors went to inquire with the house sitter. When he never answered the door or the phone they called the professor who was in Italy. The professor called his son and asked him to go see what was happening. The son decided to go at night, because the neighbor said there were always parties then, and he thought he would be sure to be able to find the house sitter then. He drove up to the house; the lawn was destroyed with tire marks and empty beer bottles. Inside the house the party was raging. The college student who was house-sitting recognized the professor’s son even though he was very, very drunk. When the son tried to talk to him he got angry that the professor had sent him. The party was raging and this son would end it. In a fit of drunkenness he took the son hit him over the head and tied and gagged him up and put him in the closet. The son suffocated to death.

When the professor found this out, the college student was sentenced to life in jail and had to pay 100,000s of dollars in property damage. The house was sublet to other people.

1 comment:

Alessandra said...

Yeah! I'm glad you were able to figure it out and that i am not just a wierdo. :) Its also in Luke somewhere. Yeah for parables.