A psychiatrist enters a room with two patients. The first patient is pretending to saw wood and says his friend hanging from the ceiling thinks he is a light bulb. The doctor asks the first patient to get his friend down before he hurts himself, but the first patient refuses, saying he needs the light. The story reflects on how it is easy to see others' faults but not one's own, and how the speech of intoxicated people can be vulgar and unbecoming.

1. * The Patients
A psychiatrist entered a room with 2 patients. He saw the first
patient sitting on the floor pretending to saw a piece of wood into
two halves. The second patient was hanging from the ceiling by his
feet. The doctor asked the first patient what he was doing. The
patient replied, “Can’t you see I’m sawing this piece of wood into
halves?”
“What is your friend doing up there in the ceiling?” the doctor
asked.
“My friend is crazy,” the first patient told the doctor. “He thinks
he’s an electric bulb.”
The doctor, noticing the man hanging down the ceiling getting red
in the face, asked the first patient, “ Why don’t you get your friend
down from the ceiling before he hurts himself?”
“No way,” the first patient said. “If he comes down, I have to work
in the dark!”
Reflecting …
* A man may notice the craziness of another but he is not aware
of his own craziness.
* Others' faults are easy to see but as for one's own faults,
oftentimes one is blind to them.
* A FOOLISH man tells a woman to STOP talking, but a WISE man tells
her that she looks extremely BEAUTIFUL when her LIPS are CLOSED.
* A man got 2 wishes from GOD. He asked for the Best Wine and Best
Woman.
Next moment, he had the Best Wine and Mother Teresa next to him.
Moral : BE SPECIFIC

2. * Dead Drunk
Two men, one in his fifties, the other in his twenties were sitting in
the bar. The older man , after a few rounds of drinks, started
shouting and insulting the younger man,
“Do you know that your mother is a loose woman, one without
morals … I slept with your mother a number of times!”
Everyone in the bar looked at the two men. The older man once
more was yelling at the younger man,
“I SLEPT WITH YOUR MOTHER!”
The younger man patted the old man at the back and said loudly,
“It’s time to go home, dad… you’re dead drunk!”
Reflecting …The speech and actions of an intoxicated man can be
most vulgar and unbecoming.
Let us strive to keep our mind clear, heedful and mindful.
*Wife’s Birthday
A wife told her husband that it was not necessary for him to remember
her birthday which fell on the following week.
Actually, deep down inside her she really meant :
"You’d better do or else …"
The husband knowing his wife too well, said,
“Oh, I do remember, darling.
What would you like to have for your birthday present?”
“Oh, I haven’t thought of it yet,” the wife said.
“I think anything with diamonds would be fine.”
For his wife’s birthday present, the husband gave her a pack of playing
cards.
Reflecting …* Beware! A sly and cunning person can respond to
another's request in devious ways ... ways that con you.