Fwd: Weather Man
- From: "Ruth Gramolini" <ruth.gramolini@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Shoshana Samuels" <Shoshana_Samuels@xxxxxxxx>, "Carrie Fern Gramolini" <c_gramolini@xxxxxxxxx>, "Alexandra Thayer" <athayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Dayle Levin Feingold" <DFeingold@xxxxxxxx>, "Karen Seigal" <KaLoFS@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:07:48 -0400
It was October and the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new
chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since
he was a chief in a modern society he had never been taught the old
secrets. When he looked at the sky he couldn't tell what
the winter was going to be like.
Nevertheless, to be on the safe side he told his tribe that the winter
was
indeed going to be cold and that the members of the
village should collect firewood to be prepared. But being a practical
leader, after several days he got an idea. He went to the phone booth,
called
the National Weather Service and asked, "Is the coming winter going to
be
cold?"
"It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold," the
meteorologist
at the weather service responded.
So the Chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more
firewood in order to be prepared.
A week later he called the National Weather Service again.
"Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?"
"Yes," the man at National Weather Service again replied, "it's going
to
be a very cold winter.
The Chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect
every
scrap of firewood they could find.
Two weeks later the Chief called the National Weather Service
again. "Are
you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?"
"Absolutely," the man replied. "It's looking more and more like it
is going to be one of the coldest winters ever."
"How can you be so sure?" the Chief asked.
The weatherman replied, "The Indians are collecting firewood like
crazy."
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Ruth Gramolini
ruth.gramolini@xxxxxxxxx
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