One day a customer came to a hatmaker, brought a sheep skin and asked: “Sew me a hat from this skin!” “Okay,” says the master, “I’ll sew it!” The customer came out from the master and thought: “But the skin is big - maybe it will be possible to cut out two hats?” He thought so, returned to the hat maker and asked: “Tell me, master, can you sew two hats from this skin?” “Why not?” - answered the hatmaker. “I can.” “If so, I’ll sew two hats,” said the customer and left.
He walked a little, thought, returned again to the hat maker and asked: “Master, won’t you make three hats from the skin?” “Why not?” - answered the hatmaker. “I’ll sew three.” The customer was delighted and asked: “Can’t you sew four?” “I’ll sew four!” - answered the master. “And five?” “I’ll sew five.” “Then sew me five hats!” The customer left, but halfway back he returned and asked: “Master, can you sew six hats?” “I’ll sew six.” “Can you sew seven?” Or maybe eight hats? - Why not? And I’ll sew eight! - answered the master. “Well, then sew me eight hats!” “Okay, I’ll sew eight. Come back in a week for your order.”
A week later, the customer came to the master: “Are my hats ready?” “Ready,” the master answers. He called his student and said: “Go and bring the customer his hats.” The student immediately brought eight small hats - not to put them on your head, but on an apple! The customer looked at them, was surprised and asked: “What is this?” “These are the hats that you ordered for me,” the hat maker answered. “Hey, master, why did these hats turn out so small?” “And just think about it!” - answered the hat maker. The customer took eight small hats, left and began to think: “Why did they turn out to be such small hats? Why?.."
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru