Cold winter

    The Indians asked their chief in autumn if the winter was going to be cold or not. Not really knowing the answer, the chief replied that the winter was going to be cold and that the members of the village should go to collect wood to be prepared.

    Being a good leader, he then went to the next phone booth and called the national weather service and asked: “Is this winter to be cold?”

    The man on the phone responded: “This winter is going to be quite cold indeed.”

    So the chief went back to speed up his people to collect even more wood to be prepared. A week later he called the national weather service again: “Is it going to be a very cold winter?”

    “Yes,” the man replied, “it’s going to be a very cold winter.”

    So the chief went back to his people and ordered them to go and find every scrap of wood they could find. Two weeks later he called the national weather service again: “Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?”

    “Absolutely,” the man replied, “the Indians are collecting wood like crazy!”