Our day-care center spent time helping the kids memorize their home addresses. My daughter, who was in my class, had her street name down, but couldn’t remember the house number.
“If our house is on fire and you call 911,” I asked, “how will the firefighters know where to go?”
She had a plan: “I’ll tell them to go to South 14th Street and look for the house that’s on fire.”
There was a farmer who raised watermelons.
There was a farmer who grows watermelons.
He was doing pretty well, but he was disturbed by some local kids who would sneak into his watermelon patch at night and eat his watermelons.
After some careful thought, he came up with a clever idea that he thought would scare the kids away for sure. He made up a sign and posted it in the field.
The next day the kids show up and they see this sign, it says “Warning!! One of the watermelons in this field has been injected with cyanide.” So the kids run off, make up their own sign and post it next to the sign that the farmer made.
When the farmer returned, he surveyed the field.
He noticed that no watermelons were missing, but the sign next to his read: “Now there are two!”
Lesson: Lies can exploit the situation further. Make truthful decisions.
