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| 19. Foolish Orders |
When Nasreddin was still a young boy, he was very naughty.
He always disobeyed what his father asked him to do. Very often, he did
something contradictory to his father’s order. Therefore, if his father ordered
him to do something, he preferred giving contradictory orders rather than straightforward ones. If he, for example, wanted his son to come into the
house, he would say, “Get out, son.”
One day, the father and son were walking home from the
market. They brought a donkey with them. They put some snacks of flour on its
back. When they were crossing the river, one of the flour sacks slid down from
the back of the donkey.
The father, of course, hoped that Nasreddin would lift the
sack instead of pushing it. But that time Nasreddin even did the order as it
was said. He pushed the sack so that he drowned it in the river. Soon it
disappeared into the water.
Seeing that, the father got angry. He said, “You’re a fool,
Nasreddin!’
Nasreddin answered, “Sorry, Dad. I obeyed your order now
just to show how foolish your orders are.”
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