One day a glazier said to a madman:
“All the crazy people are breaking windows, but for some reason you’re lazy and sitting around doing nothing.” Go ahead and break glass. You will help me a lot with this: I will have more work.
The madman obeyed. He ran to the glazier's house and, dancing merrily, threw stones until there was not a single piece of glass left in the windows.
When the glazier returned home and saw this, he attacked the madman with his fists.
- Why are you angry with me? - asked the madman.
- After all, you yourself told me: “Go break windows.”
- But I told you to break windows in other houses so that I would have more work! – the glazier exclaimed in despair. “If I had broken the glass not in your house,” the madman objected, “then the owners could have invited another glazier.” And here I am calm: you won’t call anyone and you will do this work yourself.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru