The Embarrassing Question
After the seven-mile race in Scotland, we went to a store where I
bought a football for Tejiyan's team. In India I hadn't seen that kind
of ball, so I bought it. Janaka and Janani were with me, browsing.
One of the workers came up to me and said, "I am embarrassed, but I would like to ask you something. You have no hair, yet you look so smart and strong. May I know your age?"
I said, "Fifty-one."
He said, "Fifty-one?"
The worker was much younger than me, but he was very fat. He couldn't believe I was over fifty. And he was not just flattering me because I bought the football.He said this to me long before I bought it.
[Source: "The Embarrassing Question" in Sri Chinmoy, I Love Shopping, Part 1. First published by Agni Press in 1985. Copied from the web pages of www.SrinChmoyLibrary.com/Sri-Chinmoy-love-shopping/part1.]
Copyright © Sri Chinmoy
One of the workers came up to me and said, "I am embarrassed, but I would like to ask you something. You have no hair, yet you look so smart and strong. May I know your age?"
I said, "Fifty-one."
He said, "Fifty-one?"
The worker was much younger than me, but he was very fat. He couldn't believe I was over fifty. And he was not just flattering me because I bought the football.He said this to me long before I bought it.
[Source: "The Embarrassing Question" in Sri Chinmoy, I Love Shopping, Part 1. First published by Agni Press in 1985. Copied from the web pages of www.SrinChmoyLibrary.com/Sri-Chinmoy-love-shopping/part1.]
Copyright © Sri Chinmoy
