Save a Horse...

I remember old Sassy Sorbet like he was with us just the other day. Come to think of it, he was with me just the other day. In fact, it began like any other day. I began down the rugged mountain trail down to the stables. Now I had been taking care of a couple of horses for awhile. I took in wild horses from around the area who were injured or abused by their horse families and cared for them until they were able to the wild. However there was one horse that stayed. Sassy Sorbet, or just Sorbet for short, was a loving horse who also did this weird scratching thing against the wooden fence were he rubbed his butt against it. Now Sorbet loved all the horses and showed care and compassion towards the poor things. However his kindness is what killed him. One stormy night, while I was watching Wheel of Fortune, I heard a loud crack outside. I rushed out the door to see that the whole barn had gone up in flames. I rushed down towards the stables and threw open the doors. The horses all did some ridiculous stumble thing that would have been hilarious if not used in this context. All but one horses escaped, Strong-Legged Lenny. Now I have to explain that Strong-Legged Lenny was inaptly named because his two back legs were crippled. I planned on saving as many horses as possible, but Sorbet was gonna save them all. He dashed in there and slowly backed up to Lenny. I was curious about how a horse planned to  save another horse without the advantage of opposable thumbs. However he proved me wrong. He used the only skill he had. Sorbet put his butt against Lenny and rolled him all the way to the front doors. I thought  he was going to actually pull it off then *BAM* hit by flaming debris. That barn hadn't passed a safety regulation test since 1984 and I didn't like Lenny that much so I hightailed it out of there. Good thing I did too, because as soon as I got ten feet away the building collapsed. After the initial shock of the escaping the immediate danger, I was hit with feelings of guilt. Sorbet was never coming back. I called the fire department and sullenly walked back to my house and sat back in my recliner. The worst part was Wheel of Fortune was over. So I just changed the channel to find Border Wars, which wasn't that exciting.