A father and his tall young son were walking through a narrow hallway which was crossed overhead by a large beam. The boy did not notice the beam as they were talking.
Suddenly his father said, “Stoop! Stoop!” The young fellow didn’t understand what he meant until he hit his head against the low beam.
Then his father said to him, “Son, you are young. You have life before you. Stoop low as you go, and you will miss many hard bumps!”
The young man never forgot that lesson from his father. It was a help to him all through life.
ML-04/10/1977