Goethe was once strolling on a narrow path in a park in Weimar. As luck would have it, he met with a critic who was hostile to him. Both of them stopped, staring at each other. Then the critic said,“I will never make way for a fool.”“But I will,” with that Goethe retreated aside.
A man asked his boss for a rise in salary. The boss said, “What do you mean? Give you a rise? You don’t work here at all. Listen:there are 365 days in the year—366 this year, because it’s a Leap Year. The working day is 8 hours—that’s one third of a day, so over the year that’s 122 days. The office is shut on Sundays, so that’s 52 off, making 70 days. Then you have two weeks’holiday—take off 14 days which leaves 56. There are four Bank Holidays which leaves 52. Then the office is closed on Saturdays, isn’t it? Well, there are 52 Saturdays in the year—so you don’t do anything here at all. Yet you’re asking me for a rise!”