Facts From A Fable

March 25th, 2009 |

We have our own version of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” going on at DeSoto Hills.  I am sure you remember this fable.  There was a shepherd boy who thought it was great fun to upset his village by pretending that a wolf was attacking their sheep.  Each time the villagers would run to his rescue, only to find that there was no wolf.  This went on until one day,  the sheep were indeed attacked.  However, because of his past pranks, no one ran to the boy’s aide.  You can imagine how the story ends.   Sometimes we may accidentally “cry wolf”.   Sometimes we may “cry wolf” because we are curious, or sometimes, like the boy in the story, we may do it as a joke.  The fact is, whatever the reason, when we send out a false alarm, it is a big deal and a bad thing.  Our particular version of this fable revolves around our elevator.  Recently we have sent out several false alarms that result in us being guilty of “crying wolf”.  Please be reminded that the elevator is not a toy, but rather a tool to help everyone, regardless of age or condition, have access to our entire building.  Know this, if you push the “call” button by mistake or otherwise, the authorities will show up.  They treat it as a real call even if you don’t mean it as a real call.  It’s not that I’m concerned they will eventually not show up because of all the false alarms.  The problem is when we “cry wolf”, we are wasting their time and perhaps hindering them from answering another call that is the real deal.  Accidents happen, but we need to learn from them so they will not continually occur.

Facts from a fable,