Woodcutter!
Three, two liner stories that our teacher used to drive home the point of being closer, relevant and significant to reality…
A woman at a bank asked the cashier to cash the cheque for her. Citing company policy the cashier asked her for identification. The woman gasped. Finally, she managed to say, “But, John, I’m your mother!”
“That’s clever dog you have there,” said a man when he saw his friend playing cards with his dog. “Not as clever as he looks,” was the reply. “Every time he gets a good hand he wags his tail.”
There was an exhausted woodcutter who kept wasting time and energy chopping wood with a blunt axe because he did not have the time, he said, to stop and sharpen the blade.
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