A Thought-Provoking Tale

Every morning a husband and his wife sit at the breakfast table, looking out the window at their neighbor’s wash hanging on the line. And every morning, the wife comments about how dingy the neighbor’s laundry looks.

“She really should do a better job,” says the wife. “Obviously she’s using cheap detergent, or filthy water or some such thing. My own laundry is so much whiter, so much cleaner. Yes, obviously, she must be doing something wrong.”

Then, one morning, the husband gets up early, way before the wife is out of bed, and washes the kitchen window. He scrubs and scrubs, until the window is spotless.

Later that morning, the husband and wife sit at the breakfast table and look out the window at the neighbor’s wash hanging on the line.

“Oh my,” says the wife. “Look how clean and sparkly our neighbor’s wash is today! Obviously she took my advice and finally learned how to do her wash properly! Doesn’t it look so much better? So much cleaner? Yes, she’s finally doing something right.”

-source: Written in a blog I happened upon, no source provided.