A man is
driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery.
He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, "My car
broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?"
The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, and even fix
his car. As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange
sound. The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was,
but they say, "We can't tell you. You're not a monk."
The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about
his merry way. Some years later, the same man breaks down in
front of the same monastery.
The monks gain accept him, feed him, and even fix his car. That
night, he hears the same strange noise that he had heard years
earlier. The next morning, he asks what it is, but the monks
reply, "We can't tell you. You're not a monk."
The man says, "All right, all right. I'm dying to know. If the
only way I can find out what that sound was, is to become a
monk, how do I become a monk?"
The monks reply, "You must travel the earth and tell us how
many blades of grass there are and the exact number of sand
pebbles. When you find these numbers, you will become a monk."
The man sets about his task. Some forty-five years later, he
returns and knocks on the door of the monastery. He says, "I
have traveled the earth and have found what you have asked for.
There are 145,236,284,232 blades of grass and
231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth."
The monks reply, "Congratulations. You are now a monk. We
shall now show you the way to the sound."
The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk
says, "The sound is right behind that door."
The man reaches for the knob, but the door is locked. He says,
"May I have the key?"
The monks give him the key, and he opens the door.
Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man
asks for the key to the stone door. The monks give him the key,
and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. He gets
another key from the monks. Behind that door is another door,
this one made of sapphire. So it went until the man had gone
through doors of emerald, silver, topaz and diamond.
Finally, the monks say, "This is the last key to the last door."
The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the door, turns the
knob, and behind that door he is utterly astonished to find the
source of that beguiling sound...But I can't tell you what it
is because you're not a monk.
My friend
wanted a boat more than anything. His wife kept
refusing, but he bought one anyway. "I'll tell you what,"
he told her. "In the spirit of compromise, why don't you
name the boat?"
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A guy is
walking along when suddenly he got his foot caught
in the railroad tracks. He tried to get it out but it
was really stuck. He heard a noise and turned around to see a
train coming.
After a
young couple brought their new baby home, the wife suggested that her
husband should try his hand at changing diapers.
K Nithin Kamath,
(M|B)angalore
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