Experts cannot be wrong
Once, somehow Mulla Nasrudin’s wife’s name was missed in the voters’ list. Then there was an election, and his wife was very anxious to vote, but her name was not there. So Nasrudin took his wife to the election commissioner — and not only was the name not there on the list, it was said that his wife was dead! Of course his wife was very furious, and she was more furious because Nasrudin was taking the thing with much ease. He was not disturbed, and he was not angry, and he should have been, because how dare these people count her dead when she was alive? She was very angry.
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They went to the commissioner, and she told him, “This is not right. I’m alive! And in your list it is said that I am dead. What is this?”
She was so angry that Nasrudin said, “Wait. You cannot fight with the officers. They must be right. How can they be wrong? Of course they know better than we do, and you, a foolish woman, not educated at all, trying to argue with a great officer ? If they write you are dead — you must be dead.”
Experts cannot be wrong.
