The good-hearted Indian²²

While I was shopping in London, an Indian really proved to have a good heart. I was buying some saris, and I wanted to pay the owner in American dollars. I was telling him that to simplify things, I would say that two dollars equals a pound. The owner said, “Do you want to make me very rich?”

I said, “Why?”

He said, “It is a dollar eighty-five, and you want to give me two dollars. I don’t want you to make me rich!”

Since I was offering, he could have easily agreed. Then he was begging me to drink some juice because it was very hot. I said no, because I had to leave.

He said, “At least take some handkerchiefs from me. Do you have any handkerchiefs?”

I said, “No, I don’t have any handkerchiefs.”

So he forced me to take three handkerchiefs.

From:Sri Chinmoy,I love shopping, part 1, Agni Press, 1985
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