O Stories

A young girl and her father were walking  along a forest path.   At some point, they came  across a large tree branch on the ground in  front of them.  The girl asked her father,  “If I try, do you think I could move that branch?” Her father replied, “I am sure you can, if you  use all your strength.” The girl tried her best to  lift or push the branch, but she was not strong  enough and she couldn't move it. She said, with  disappointment, “You were wrong, dad. I can't move it.” “Try again with all your strength,” replied her father. Again, the girl tried hard to push the branch. She struggled but it did not move. “Dad, I cannot do it,”  said the girl. Finally her father said,  “Young lady, I advised you to use 'all your strength'.  You didn’t ask for my help. Our real strength lies not in independence, but in  interdependence. No individual person has all the  strengths, all the resources and all the stamina required  for the complete b

A jobless man applied for the job of "sweeper"  at Microsoft.  The HR interviewed him.. Then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. "You are Appointed" he said. "Give me your e-mail address and I'll send you  the forms to fill in".  The man replied "But I don't  have a computer, neither an email." "I'm sorry", said the HR manager... "If you don't have an email, that means u do not exist.  And who doesn't exist, cannot have the job." The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do, with only $10 in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket & buy a  10Kg tomato crate. He then sold the tomatoes in a Door to Door round.  In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the operation three times,  and returned home with $60. The man realised that he can survive this way,  and started to go everyday earlier and re

A man had one very beautiful daughter. When the daughter was ready for marriage,  the father sent news around town that all the  eligible young men should come to compete in a test which would determine who was fit to marry his daughter. On that day, all was set, all the able-bodied young  men came out. Some came with paper and biro and  others with cutlasses and swords. The rich man took them to his swimming pool and addressed the men:  “Any of you who can swim from one end  of this swimming pool to the other would marry my daughter. In addition, I‘ll give him 15million dollars, a car and a house  so they can start life well. I shall be waiting to meet my  son-in-law at the other end. Good luck!” As the young men, all very excited at the prospect  of winning, started taking off their shirts, a helicopter  came over the pool and dropped alligators and  crocodiles into the pool. Immediately, all the men  turned back and started wearing their shirts again