Friday, 3 August 2012

Where is your paint can


A man landed a job painting the yellow line down the center of the highway, by hand. After three days his foreman complained about the job he was doing. “Your first day out, you did great,” he said. “You painted that line for three miles. Your second day wasn’t bad. You painted two miles. But today you painted only one mile, so it looks like I will have to fire you.”

On his way out of the foreman’s office, the employee looked back and said, “It’s not my fault. Everyday I got further and further from the paint can.”


After reading this story online I laugh a lot and then suddenly another thought came into my mind that how we complicate our lives at work and at home, if we are lacking insight into how we create additional stresses in our lives.  Such a simple solution carry the paint can with you then no need to come back for it but indeed we do this in real life. Here I want to share another story   

A man was driving when he saw the flash of a traffic camera. He figured that his picture had been taken for exceeding the limit, even though he knew that he was not speeding. Just to be sure, he went around the block and passed the same spot, driving even more slowly, but again the camera flashed. Now he began to think that this was quite funny and get so excited he drove even slower as he passed the area again, but the traffic camera again flashed. He tried a fourth time with the same result. He did this a fifth time and was now laughing when the camera flashed as he rolled past, this time at a snail's pace. after Two weeks later, he got five tickets in the mail for driving without a seat belt.

LOL.. and now this is happen when we forget to think in real excitement.

Even famous people do mistake like this in simple things. Sir Isaak Newton famous scientist had two dogs one was little big and another one quite small. Once he wanted to make a house for the dogs. So he brought the carpenter to make a house for the dogs. While he was making it Sir Isaak Newton came and advised the carpenter to built two doors for the  house one is big and another one small. So from the big door the dog which is big will enter and through the small one will be for the smaller one . Then carpenter get surprised and asked him if he made one big door both dog can enter easily. Hearing this Newton start to think why its not came into his mind.

Doing mistake in life is the most common things we all do but the problem is  not to learn from it and doing the same mistake again.

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