Hanging On The Line
After a bizarre cliff side accident, all eleven members of the women's outing
found themselves hanging perilously from a rope over the edge of the cliff. Ten
of the women were blondes and one was a brunette. After dangling there for a
only a short while it became obvious that the rope would not hold all their
collective weight. They decided that to prevent the rope snapping and killing
them all, one of them must sacrifice themselves and let go, to save the others.
Well they talked about it for a while but no-one could decide a fair way of of
choosing who should jump. Finally, the brunette, exasperated by the
indecisiveness of the blondes, could see that if nobody acted soon the rope was
going to snap.
To save the others she bravely decided that it must be her who made the
sacrifice. She plucked up a little courage and told the others that she would
jump to save them.
After giving a short but very moving speech that she hoped would be remembered
after she'd gone, the blondes were so moved that they all started clapping!