The Parable of Thin
Ice
1.
And
one day in the little town of Richeyville, Jim Tom decided to go ice fishing on
the river.
2.
And
Jim Tom didn’t realize it was 38 degrees out and the ice was thin.
3.
And
he walked out to the middle of the river and drilled a hole.
4.
And
when he drilled into the ice, it was only 3 inches thick, and it began to crack
all around him.
5.
Jim
Tom began running for the shore, but didn’t make it.
6.
And
he fell into the hypothermic water, and his clothes saturated with water.
7.
And
Jim Tom began to run out of air.
8.
And
right as Jim Tom thought it was all over and he was going to drown, a hand
reached in and pulled him up.
9.
And
that hand was an EMT who had watched him fall in.
10.
And
that EMT loaded Jim Tom into her ambulance and took him to the Richeyville
hospital.
11.
When
they got there Jim Tom had regained consciousness.
12. And he
realized how lucky he was to still be alive.
13.
And
Jim Tom’s toes got so cold when he was in the water that when they thawed, seven
of them fell off.
14. And Jim Tom
became very saturnine when he saw he had three toes left.
15.
When
his mom and dad came to the hospital, they were very disappointed in him.
16.
And
they told Jim Tom he should’ve thought about his actions before he went
fishing.
17.
And
Jim Tom felt very stupid for going ice fishing when it was 38 degrees outside.
18.
Jim
Tom then made a promise to his parents that he would think before he acts.
19.
And
next time Jim Tom wanted to go ice fishing, he checked how warm it was outside.
20. And he also
checked how thick the ice was.
21. And from this
day forward, he talked to his friends about thinking first.
22. And all of his
friends looked up to Jim Tom.
23. And Jim Tom
lived a long happy life with only a few of his toes left,
24. Ice fishing
and being careful.
25. And he lived
until he was 112.
