Fairy Tale Spotlight: The Talking Rabbit Scenario

So far it's a normal day. You don't have work or school. You figure it's going to be pretty boring, and maybe that's the way you prefer it. After watching a little TV, you step out to get a bite to eat. Before you can make it to your car, you see something very strange.

A rabbit wearing a waste-coat is running up to you as swiftly as it can on his back two legs. He seems panicked. Stopping right at your feet, the bunny looks up at you and speaks, "Hey, mister! You gotta help me! I'm in a whole lot of danger! There's a fox magician after me! He's turning everyone he meets into rabbits! Pick me up, get in your car, and lets scram!"

At this point, you have to make a decision. That decision is yours and only yours to make. I cannot make it for you. I'm not even going to give you options. You simply have to decide for yourself what you would do and where it might lead you. But I will give you some things to consider.

1. The rabbit talked to you. This is weird. Rabbits are not really known to talk at all. In fact, most people do not even think rabbits make sound. If you were to see and hear a rabbit talking, it would be completely reasonable for you to think, "My goodness. That was entirely out of the ordinary. How very weird."

2. The rabbit was wearing clothing. Not quite as weird as point #1. After all, we put clothing on animals all the time. We do it to dogs who love it and cats who pretty much give up on life afterwards. Why not rabbits? Yes, this poor rabbit could just as easily been the victim of some unfortunate run-in with a human who thinks dolling up bunnies in waste-coats constitutes good sport.

However, if that bunny did indeed put on the clothing of his own volition, that might also be considered weird, unusual, and completely out of the ordinary--all of which are really the same thing when it comes down to it. If that rabbit chose to wear clothing then there might be at least three things attributed to its wearing of the clothes that would make this bunny one that exists outside of the ordinary.

3. The rabbit was running upright in the fashion of a human being. Now, I'm not saying that a rabbit could not do this. If a rabbit was so inclined to, he could easily stand up and walk around like that. The point of this... point is that it is rather an uncommon thing for a rabbit to be running on two feet. If you were to see a rabbit doing this, you might consider the situation to be, once again, quite strange. Weird even. Perhaps even a little bit peculiar.

4. After getting past the first three points--if you are able to do so--you might listen to what the rabbit has to say. He claims that there is a fox magician who... But wait. Let's just stop there. Do you know of any fox magicians? This is also uncommon. Most foxes are not magicians at all. Usually they are simply... foxes. They roam about looking for food and other some-such things. But if you can get past this point, there is one last thing to consider:

5. The rabbit claims the fox magician is going about turning everyone into rabbits. What does this mean? Is this a rabbit or is it another human? Is it a rabbit who is simply warning humans that he may become a rabbit like him? There simply isn't enough information to go on. Or is there?!

6. This is the last point. Really. The rabbit wants you to take him on a car ride to get away from this fox magician which you haven't seen yet! The rabbit seems quite knowledgeable about motor vehicles. Perhaps he has driven one himself at some point. It is really unclear. A good many things in life are--and this problem becomes increasingly more problematic when you consider that talking rabbits and magical foxes are extremely uncommon within the normal course of reality.

Most people don't get this long to consider the facts of what is weird and what isn't. They simply have to make calls quickly. Freezing up means that the encounter will pass them by. The magic of stories allows me to fill you in on things you might not have fully considered in such a small span of time. For example, talking rabbits wearing waste-coats are fairly abnormal.

But even knowing what you know now, what would your decision be? What would you do? Why would you do it? How far would you go? How would it end? It is time to turn on your imagination and decide the course of the rest of your life. Make that call and bring it to a conclusion. After all, that rabbit isn't going to wait forever.

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