Someone please solve this!Follow

Okay, my friend and I are sitting on the porch, when he starts up with this stuff:

"Once upon a time, there was a man. This man would walk out to his car and go to work every day, just like any usual person. One day, when he was walking out to his car, he found a snail on the pavement. Picking it up, he muttered, 'Darn snails.', tossed it over the roof into his backyard, and went to work.

In the backyard the snail lie, his shell cracked and he was on the verge of death. As the darkness crept up his body, he remembered the face of the man who threw him, and with that lingering thought as his motivation he slowly began to recooperate.

Well, a year later the snail finally got back to his spot on the front porch. And that day, the man came out of his house in his usual manner, spotted a snail on the pavement, and picked it up. He stared into the snail's angry eyes, full of hatred, full of fury, full of anger (yeah, that was redundant). Then the man said, 'What the f**k is your problem?!' and tossed him over again."

My friend said if I could figure that out, I'd understand life on the streets.

So like any good lazy American, I'm letting you guys solve it. Have fun.

Snails don't need their shells, do they?


And the deal is that "The Man" is abusing them, and that they work their way back up to living a normal life, and then "The Man" beats them down again.

Ok, feel sorry for the poor snail (the downtrodden, homeless, supressed, whatever). But the snail was whacked to begin with. What was he doing on the drive-way? and why did he go back to the porch? A porch and a drive-way are no place for a snail. (he should have found a nice shady garden)

the "back yard" would prolly be jail.

did he interupt your banjo duelling with this puzzle?

can you not dictate it? or did the city kid agency send you that deaf one again, i hate that agency!

Well, it's not so much being deaf as it is the way he stares at me all googly-eyed whenever I say the word 'pavement.'

He scares me. o_O

While I like your idea Joph, I'm sure Kaolian is saddened by the prospects of eating snails.

Just what I needed: a close-up of a snail. Blech.

Perhaps it is symbolic of lifes troubles tossing us around, and how we are persistent.. we recuporate and try again....

or am I way off base LOL

heh, the real question is, what is the meaning of life? o.O


Edited, Sun Oct 3 18:58:11 2004 by Mistabig

I believe the story of the man and the snail makes for an interesting anology on life. If we look closely we can see that the snail is trying to stand up and make his place much like a midget inside a "Big and tall" store and that the man getting in his car is trying to go to work by way of his car much like the big corporations that pollute our world.

If we take this to be the case we can then see that the snail is then trying to become a polluter and is being taught by the corporations how this is wrong in the "Do as I say not as I do" philosophy of public schools. So then we see how the snail is a student and the man is a nun in a secular school for the religion of "Those that don't agree with us are evil". So the man is then much more evil than we thought for throwing the snail because he's a religious nut job.

This means that what the story is meant to teach is that when your on the street in the big city you shouldn't let nuns throw you and break your shell and if they do you shouldn't try going back to show up the nun because that nun will just beat the **** out of you again while blowing smoke in your face(like polluting!).

This is a very wise story.