Who's Following In Your Footsteps?

THERE WAS A FATHER

who kept a jug of whiskey

hidden in the corn crib.

IT WAS HIS HABIT

to go out there every morning

and get himself a drink.

ON A SNOWY MORNING

he went out to the barn

as was his habit,

but this time he heard someone behind him.

HE TURNED AROUND

and found that it was his little son

following him,

stepping in the footsteps in the snow

where his father had walked.

THE FATHER ASKED,

"What are you doing, son?"

The boy answered,

"Im following in your footsteps."

HE SENT THE BOY BACK

into the house,

and then he went out to the corn crib

and smashed that jug of whiskey.

HE REALIZED

that he didn't want his boy

to be following in his footsteps.