HOW TO FIND YOUR WIFE ?

A couple went Christmas shopping at the mall. They decided to go their separate ways and meet two hours later.


The husband was at their appointed meeting place at the appointed time, but there was no sign of his wife. (no surprise there)


After waiting for half an hour, he started looking for her but couldn't find her in any of the stores she usually frequented.


Finally, thoroughly tired of looking for her, he approached a beautiful blonde on a mall bench. He smiled at her and said,


"Please, talk to me! Quick!"


She said, "Huh? Why?"


"Because I've been looking for my wife all over this mall and I can't find her," the man replied.


"Excuse me sir, how will talking to me help you find your wife? I have absolutely no idea what she looks like, much less where she is."


"Oh, I know you don't know where she is... It's just that I've been looking, but I can't seem to find my wife anywhere around this mall. However, I know every time I start talking to a beautiful woman, like magic, she *suddenly* appears!"

Modern Panchtantra Story

Once upon a time, there was a software engineer who used to develop programs on his Pentium machine, sitting under a tree on the banks of a river. He used to earn his bread by selling those programs in the Sunday market.




One day, while he was working, his machine tumbled off the table and fell in the river. Encouraged by the Panchatantra story of his childhood (the woodcutter and the axe),










He started praying to the River Goddess. The River Goddess wanted to test him and so appeared only after one month of rigorous prayers. The engineer told her that he had lost his computer in the river.








As usual, the Goddess wanted to test his honesty. She showed him a match box and asked, "Is this your computer ?" Disappointed by the Goddess' lack of computer awareness, the engineer replied, "No."




She next showed him a pocket-sized calculator and asked if that was his.




Annoyed, the engineer said "No, not at all!!"




Finally, she came up with his own Pentium machine and asked if it was his.




The engineer, left with no option, sighed and said "Yes."




The River Goddess was happy with his honesty. She was about to give




Him all three items, but before she could make the offer, the engineer




Asked her, "Don't you know that you're supposed to show me some better computers before bringing up my own ?"




The River Goddess, angered at this, replied, "I know that, you stupid donkey! The first two things I showed you were the Trillennium and the Billennium, the latest computers from IBM !". So saying, she disappeared with the Pentium!!




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Moral :If you're not up-to-date with technology trends, it's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.