In Charge

From an old joke Dad told me:

At one time the entire body was in complete chaos. It had no one or anything in charge of it’s activities. Recognizing this, the brain decided it should be boss.

“After all,” the brain said, “without me nothing would get done.”

The feet immediately disagreed, claiming “Without us, you couldn’t walk anywhere.”

Their argument was met with disagreement from the legs, who told the rest of the body the feet were useless with out them. Soon the arms and hands were vying for the position, as was the heart and lungs along with the stomach and eyes.

Suddenly, the butt chimed in saying it should be in charge of the body. It’s claim was met with laughter and ridicule.

The butt responded, saying, “I show you!”

And it stopped functioning. Soon the legs were weak, the stomach sick, the feet were swollen, the heart had palpitations, the lungs wheezed, the hands became stiff, the eyes were blurry and the brain grew foggy.

Before long they were pleading with the butt to start functioning once again.

The butt replied, “Only if I can be boss.”

All the other body parts agreed and made the butt the boss over them all, proving you only need be an ass to be in charge.