THREE MISCREANTS
A boy was visiting the zoo for the first time. He was accompanied by his
father. The boy was much excited and was discussing with his father the
different types of animals they would see in the zoo.
They reached the gates
of the zoo and moved to the counter where the tickets for entry into the zoo
were sold. The father gave the cash to the person inside the counter through a
narrow window and asked for two tickets- one senior and one junior. The officer
quickly extended his arm through a hole in the counter and gave the tickets and
the exact balance as cash. The boy was watching the scene with excitement. He
asked aloud, “Father, that ape in the counter knows arithmetic too. He is so
intelligent!”
A vain lady asked the
Vicar, “Father, today I spent a lot of time before the mirror, watching my
image and wondering how beautiful I am. Is that misbehaviour, Father?” The
Vicar told her, “Your action has a different name. It was not misbehaviour; it
was a case of misunderstanding!”
A young man had to
return alone to the place of his work in a distant country, a week after his
wedding. He wrote his first loving letter to his beloved wife with his own
hands to give it a personal touch. In the letter, he addressed her as ‘my
better half.’ But unfortunately, he had a very bad and illegible handwriting.
She read his loving address as: MY BITTER HALF’. That initiated a quarrel which
gradually intensified and ended in their divorce.
A
moment of misunderstanding or misinterpretation may be very disastrous and may
make a couple forget the millions of memorable moments spent together.
It is wrong to draw
conclusions until we know all the facts. His Grace the Most Rev. Philipose Mar
Chrysostom Mar Thoma Valiya Metropolitan and former Head of the Mar Thoma Syrian
Church, once remarked humorously, “Three unmarried girls are responsible for
most of the troubles in the world. These miscreants are: Misunderstanding,
Misinterpretation and Misrepresentation.” Because these three words start
with ‘Mis’, they were described humorously by the Metropolitan as ‘Miss’
troublemakers.
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© By: Prof. Dr. Babu Philip, Darsana
Academy, Kottayam-686001, Kerala, India ( Former Professor, Cochin University
of Science & Technology, Fine Arts Avenue, Kochi-682016, Kerala,
India), Prof. Mrs. Rajamma Babu, Former Professor, St. Dominic's
College, Kanjirappally, Leo. S. John, St. Antony's Public
School, Anakkal, Kanjirappally and Neil John, Maniparambil, Ooriyakunnath, Kunnumbhagom, Kanjirappally,
Kottayam-686507, Kerala, India.
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