One day, two hunters hired a plane to get to a distant forest area. Two weeks later the pilot flew to take them back. Looking at their hunting trophies, he said:
— The plane cannot lift more than one buffalo. You'll have to leave one here.
“But last year the pilot agreed to take on board two buffalos of similar size,” the hunters protested.
The pilot thought about it. Finally he said:
- Well, okay. If you succeeded last year, you should succeed this time too.
The plane attempted to take off with two passengers and two buffaloes on board, but failed to gain the required altitude and crashed into a nearby hill. Having climbed out of the wreckage of the plane, the hunters looked around. One said to the other:
-Where do you think we are?
His friend looked around the area and replied:
“I think we're two miles to the left of where we crashed last time.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru