Movie Promotion

An elegant actor was there to promote his movie. The story was about the love affair of
a student with his teacher. At the promotional event, a student raised this question to
one of the actors of the movie.

Student: A student who falls in love with his teacher. Doesn’t this movie influence us
in a bad way if we try to follow it?

Actor: After seeing movies of Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda, have you
tried to follow them?

Student: Yes.

The student was stern and brimming with confidence.

Actor: Then you have nothing to worry. No one can mislead you!

The whole crowd around burst into a laughter.

Had the student replied such movies failed to influence him, the actor would have said
“Same way, don’t follow this in your life”.

Ordnance Factory
In the ammunition manufacturing unit, workers were required to wear special anti-static
shoes, so they can prevent gun powder from being set off from static electricity. These
shoes were delicate and not designed to withstand everyday usage. Nonetheless
workers still wore them outside the factory, walked on streets, rode bicycles etc. This
easily wore the shoes out.

Since this became an epidemic the ordnance factory was incurring a huge cost
replacing these shoes. A committee was set up to come up with a solution. After much
thought one of the members suggested that in future they should order all the right
shoes in black and all the left shoes in white, as no one will dare wear the contrasting
pair of shoes outside in public.

The Barber’s Choice

There was a barber shop in a locality. The barber’s neighbor had a son who was 8
years old. He would frequently enter the barber shop for no reason.
The barber would take two one rupee coins in left hand and one five rupee coin in the
right hand, and ask the child, which one you want. The boy would choose the hand with
two one rupee coins, and move away happily with those two coins.

The customers in the shop would laugh at the foolishness of the child. The barber would
laugh sadistically with a satisfaction on fooling the kid.

The barber did this daily. Every time the child chose the smaller value and got laughed
at.

The kid's mother got the news from neighbours about how her son was fooled everyday.
Mother felt bad that her son was made fun of everyday.

She called her son and asked, ‘Don't you know that the value of two one rupee coin is
lesser than one five rupee coin? Weren't you taught in your school?’

The kid replied, ‘Mom, the day I choose the five rupee coin, the game is over.’