A lawyer and two friends--a Rabbi, and a Hindu holy man--had car trouble in
the countryside and asked to spend the night with a farmer.
The farmer said, "There might be a problem. You see, I only have room for two to
sleep in the house. So one of you must sleep in the barn."
"No problem," chimed the Rabbi. "My people wandered in the desert for forty
years. I am humble enough to sleep in the barn for one evening." With that he
departed to the barn,
and the others bedded down for the night.
Moments later a knock was heard at the door; the farmer opened the door. There
stood the Rabbi from the barn. "What's wrong?" asked the farmer. He replied, "I
am grateful to
you, but I just can't sleep in the barn. There is a pig in the barn, and my
faith believes that is an unclean animal."
His Hindu friend agrees to swap places with him. But a few minutes later the
same scene reoccurs. There is a knock on the door. "What's wrong?" the farmer
asks. The Hindu holy
man replies, "I, too, am grateful for your helping us out, but there is a cow in
the barn. In my country cows are considered sacred and I can't sleep on holy
ground!"
That left only the lawyer to make the change. He grumbled and complained, but
went out to the barn. Moments later there was another knock on the farmer's
door. Frustrated and
tired, the farmer opens the door, and there stood the pig and the cow.
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