There is an antique story about an old donkey who fell in the farmer’s abandoned well.  Crying out, the donkey alerted the farmer who summoned his nearby neighbors to help him get the donkey out of the deep well. Their efforts proved totally fruitless. So, the farmer made a decision. Since the donkey was old and the well needed to be filled with dirt, he would ask his neighbors to get their shovels to help him bury the old donkey while filling up the abandoned well.

When the donkey realized hi...