The Camel and the Arab An Aesop's Fable

An Arab Camel-driver having completed the lading of his Camel, asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down hill.

The poor beast replied, not without a touch of reason: "Why do you ask me? Is it that the level way through the desert is closed?"
  
Moral of Aesops Fable: Do not ask obvious questions