I ONCE heard the story of a couple that moved into a new neighbourhood.
The day after they moved in while eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbour hanging her washing out to dry. “That laundry is not very clean,” she said to her husband. “She doesn’t know how to wash correctly,” she added.
Her husband turned, looked at the neighbour in the yard next door, but remained silent.
It became a regular occurrence; every time her neighbour hung her washing out to dry, the young woman criticised the dirty laundry.
One morning, however, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line. She said to her husband: “Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this?”
The husband peered…
