Little Giant Ladders
Head and Shoulders Above the Rest
We all know Aesop's fable of the sour grapes, right? For those of you sadly lacking in classical education, it goes like this: Once upon a time a fox was sauntering along a path in the woods when he saw some ripe, succulent grapes dangling a good distance above his head. Being the four-footed kind of fox lacking opposable thumbs, and thus being unable to knock the grapes down with a well-thrown rock or two, he had to try jumping for them. He jumped and jumped, but simply couldn't reach those mouthwatering grapes. Finally, despairing of ever getting the grapes, he gave up, and snarled, "Those grapes were probably sour anyway!" and went looking for a meal that was easier to acquire. The moral, according to Aesop, was that it's easy to despise what you can't get anyway. Thus, the use of the term "sour grapes" when a person pretends not to want what they can't reach, physically or otherwise.
By now you're probably wondering, "What the heck does this creaky old fairy tale have to do with ladders?" Well, we think there's another moral to the story, which is "When you can't reach something, use a ladder." (Duh). If the fox was smart enough to talk, why didn't he use a ladder to reach the grapes? Was it that lack-of-opposable-thumbs thing again? And why would a fox want to eat grapes anyway?
But we digress.
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