AMERICA
Illustration★★★★George Adam
Smith, traveling in
the Orient, asked a native to direct him
to a certain destination. “Suffer me first
to go and bury my father,” the native
said. Smith, surprised by the remark,
was later told that such an answer represented a polite refusal.
The point
George Adam Smith learns a cultural lesson when a native's refusal to direct him ('I must bury my father') is revealed as polite rejection.
Audience
Adults
Tone
Instructive · Cultural
To tell aloud
under a minute · 45 words