Life Positive and More

An old one. Yet it can light up your face with a smile Once a bright intelligent young man went for IAS interview. He was asked – Q 1. When did India get independence ? He answered – The efforts started long back; but could succeed fully only in 1947. Q 2. Who were the persons, who played important role in this fight for independence ? Answer – There are many people, who were involved and contributed  their might in this. If I give one name, it will be doing injustice to others. Q 3. Do you think, corruption is the greatest enemy of the country ? Answer – A committee is investigating in this matter. I can give a correct reply to this only after seeing the report. The interview board was impressed by his original ideas on his replies. They asked him to wait outside; but also advised him not to reveal the questions, as they may ask the similar questions to other candidates also.                                                       **** When the young man went o...

The Green Thing In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day." The clerk responded, " That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment." He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had t...