The Businessman And the Stray Dog

Once a highly successful businessman, running a company, was getting ready to go to his office. When he reached into his car and opened a door, a stray dog sleeping under his car suddenly came out and bit the man’s leg! The businessman got very angry and quickly picked up a few rocks and threw them at the dog, but none hit the target. The dog ran away.

Upon reaching his office, the businessman calls a meeting of his managers and during the meeting he puts the anger of the dog on them. The managers also get upset by the anger of their boss and they put their anger to the employees working under them. The chain of this reaction keeps going till the lower level of employees and finally, the anger reaches back to the peon.

Now, there was no one working under the peon! So, after the office time is over, he reaches his home, and his wife opens the door. She asked him, “Why are you so late today?” The peon upset due to anger threw at him by the staff, snaps at his wife! He says, “I didn’t go to the office to play football, I went to work so don’t irritate me with your stupid questions!”

So, now the wife got upset that she got a scolding for no reason. She puts her anger on his son who was watching TV and gave him a piece of her mind, “This is all you do, you have no interest in studying! Turn off the TV now!”

The son gets upset now! He walks out of his house and sees a dog passing by, looking at him. He picks up a rock and hits the dog in his anger and frustration. The dog, getting hit by a rock, runs away barking in pain.

This was the same dog that bit the businessman early morning.

Moral of the story: There are two. First, by taking your anger on someone else who has nothing to do with your mood, you may affect more people than you think. Second, when doing something bad, you may think you will get away with it but it can come back to bite you when you least expect it.