In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10 year old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him.
“How much is an ice cream sundae?”
“50 cents,” replied the waitress.
The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied a number of coins in it.
“How much is a dish of plain ice cream?” he inquired. Some people were now waiting for a table and the waitress was a bit impatient.
“35 cents,” she said brusquely.
The little boy again counted the coins. “I’ll have the plain ice cream,” he said.
The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and departed.
When the waitress came back,
she began wiping down the table and then swallowed hard at what she saw.
There, placed neatly beside the empty dish, were 15 cents – her tip.
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“An old man lived in the village. The whole village was tired of him; he was always gloomy, he constantly complained and was always in a bad mood. The longer he lived, the viler he became and more poisonous were his words.
People did their best to avoid him because his misfortune was contagious. He created the feeling of unhappiness in others.
But one day, when he turned eighty, an incredible thing happened. Instantly everyone started hearing the rumor:
The old man is happy today, he doesn’t complain about anything, smiles, and even his face is freshened up.’
The whole village gathered around the man and asked him, “What happened to you?”
Met Some young boys who were canvassing for DMK, just called them over for a cup of tea and started a discussion
Transcripts in brief
Me : Nice to see young college boys taking active part in politics
Boys :Thank you sir
Me : How is the campaign going
B : good sir
Me : why are you campaigning for DMK
B : Its the only party that can save TN
Me : why do you say so
B : this EPS govt is slave to modi
Me : Aha
B : Modi govt has done nothing to TN
Me : do you know how much money Modi govt is giving to TN
B : we dont know the figures sir but
B: Modi is there to spoil TN , modi is Adanis agent
Me : So you dont know what modi has done to TN , you just blindly oppose him
B : No sir Modi has done nothing
Me : ok, now listen , when UPA was at the centre and DMK as its partner , Central Govt had given TN just 1.2 lk crs
There once was a very wealthy and curious king. This king had a huge boulder placed in the middle of a road. Then he hid nearby to see if anyone would try to remove the gigantic rock from the road.
The first people to pass by were some of the king’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers. Rather than moving it, they simply walked around it. A few loudly blamed the King for not maintaining the roads. Not one of them tried to move the boulder.
Finally a peasant came along. His arms were full of vegetables. When he got near the boulder, rather than simply walking around it as the others had, the peasant put down his load & tried to move the stone to the side of the road. It took a lot of effort but he finally succeeded
Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved,
another one soon followed.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground coffee beans in the third pot.
He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing.
After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl.
Big disappointment has been @rajinikanth , he is indecisive , this was his opportune moment to fix DMK once and for all
But he chose to abstain
Even now its not late for @rajinikanth all he has to do is to come out with an open statement by requesting people of Tamilnadu to vote for ADMK+ And defeat DMK+
Need of the hour. If he fails to do this history will not forgive him
As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from their
bonds but for some reason, they did not.
He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to
hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away.They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”
The man was amazed.These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t,