A Little Lesson in Humility for you Soon to be # 2's

Well, it looks like some of you are quite ready and willing to be # 2's

despite my warnings!

Let me tell you a little story

About a young Meerkat growing up on the Plains of Africa:

Abandoned by his mother, the lone meerkat set to traverse the great expanse known as the African Plains.   This meerkat was in search of the fabled reese cup.  A sweet heavenly treat that would cure all ills and grant its master ultimate powers.  This meerkat seeked the reese cup not for his own fame and fortune, no, no.  He seeked it so he could go forth and help those in need. 

One day, as the meerkat lay in the sun, nestled in some rocks, resting, he was disturbed from his slumber by the shaking of the earth and the sound of thunder!  Thunder?  On a clear sunny day, he wondered?  The earthquake grew stronger, bouncing the tiny meerkat like a rag doll across the rocks.  He jumped into a tree for safety.   That's when he saw it!  Dark as night, slithery across the plains, growing larger and louder with each passing moment!   Wildebeests!   It was the Great KMigration (the "K" is silent) that he had heard tales of in his pup-hood    It was real!  And more evil than described!

These mindless drones stampede across the plains, eating everything green in their path, destroying burrows and pummeling delicious, delectable insects into oblivion!   Many meerkat manors had been destroyed by these evil beasts...........and that is why they were at the top of this meerkat's #2 list!

Vengence is mine!  Thought the brave meerkat.  It was him against 1 million or more, but brain power, they were no more than 1 million fireflies,whose lights were about to be extinguished in the night!  They could never match wits with this mighty meerkat!

The small, but powerful meerkat snapped two branches from the tree and dipped them into the brightly colored fruits hanging high above.   Now these sticks glowed with the fruit that adorned them and the sticks looked like beacons.  The meerkat scrambled high into the tree and began to wave those beacons westward.
To the wildebeest it looked like a sign from the gods, telling them to turn westward, and they obeyed.

And those ninny beasts ran right over a cliff and were never heard from again!

The meerkat smiled as he crossed "Wildebeests" from his # 2 list.

*****

So my dear friends

I beg of you, implore you

Do not be on this meerkat's #2 list!