On the weekend I read an interesting story:
Once there was a dairy farmer who sold butter to a baker. The baker complained that the farmer was selling his one kilogram blocks of butter 100 grams short. One day he weighed the butter and, sure enough, each block was off by 100 grams.
The baker was angry and took the farmer to court. The judge asked the farmer if he had used an accurate scale to weigh the butter. The farmer replied that he hadn’t.
“Then how do you weigh your butter?” the judge asked.
“Easy,” replied the farmer. “I just buy a one kilogram loaf of bread from the baker and use it to weigh the butter.”
QUESTIONS:
1) Who was the cheat in this story? The farmer? or the baker? Why?
2) What do you think this story is trying to teach us?
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the truth always comes out in the end.That’s the most reasonable explanation for this story .
I think they are both the cheat, but the baker is the
worst becouse he cheats the other but won’t to be cheat.’
the moral could be: there’s always somebody smarter(?)
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I think both, but most the baker, because there is the possibility that he was cheating first, and the farmer was a victim, or perhaps, the farmer was smarter than him.
Anyways, the lesson could be: “The one that is sinless, be the first to throw a stone”.
I have never seen such a smartasses like the baker and the farmer in this story. I think the moral of the story could be, as we behave with others, others behave the same way with us. So act each other honest if we want the same in respond.
I like all of your morals or ‘meanings’ for the story!
For me, it tells me to make sure I am doing the right thing before I complain about others!
Hi
I think the baker was cheating.
The message is ” you will recive from people as you deal with them”.
Hi Taghreed
Yes I agree with you!
In English we say: “You get what you give”
Well done!
Haha!!The baker deserved it.He thought no one knows what he had done but he was wrong!
Yes! We have a saying in English:
Your sins will find you out!