Do you have someone in your life
who is, pardon the expression, an ass? He/she irritates you to the point that
you almost are bound to step into a quarrel. Why not try what the man in this
story first before you do anything harsh (I think the title should be one way to prevent a quarrel, but that's how I found the story). That way, every morning you wake up,
there's one less ass to deal with.
One Way to Stop A Quarrel
A man living in a small town had a nice
backyard garden. But his next-door neighbor kept a flock of chickens who easily
found their way through the holes in the fence and helped themselves to his
vegetables. The gardener wondered how he can solve his problem and keep the
peace in the neighborhood.
Then he hit upon a practical idea. He went
to the local grocery store and bought some eggs. That evening, he took a couple of eggs over to his neighbor
and said, "Your chickens are laying eggs in my garden, but I don't want to
take what does not belong to me. So, you better take the eggs back".
The next day the owner of the chickens
carefully fixed up all the holes in the fence, there never was a quarrel
between the neighbors.
- by Friedritch Dietz
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