Clean Windows

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ~George Bernard Shaw

 

The story is told of a woman who took great pleasure in criticising others. Apparently, she had nothing better to do with her time but to look out her windows at what her neighbors were or were not doing.  Her husband came home every day to a litany of all of the faults of all of the neighbors.  One neighbor in particular was a frequent target of her barbs.  "That woman doesn't know how to do her washing," she told her husband.  "Just look at those sheets and towels.  They are all so dingy-looking.  And don't even get me started on the diapers!  If she'd only ask me, I could teach her how to hang out a really white wash."

 

Week after week it went until her husband was sick of her whining.  One evening, when he arrived home, the wife was absolutely complimentary.  "You should have seen Mrs. Jone's wash today," she told him.  "She finally got it right.  That wash was as clean and white as any I've seen." 

 

"Mrs. Jone's wash is no different than it always was," he told her.  "I just got up a little earlier this morning and washed our windows."

 

Good story.  'Nuff said.

 

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