Honesty ( Is The Best Policy )

[postman]

There was a farmer who sold a pound of butter to the baker. One day
the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting a pound
and he found that he was not. This angered him and he took the
farmer to court.

The judge asked the farmer if he was using any measure. The farmer
replied, "ur Honor, I am primitive. I don't have a proper measure, but
I do have a scale." The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the
butter" The farmer replied "Your Honor, long before the baker started
buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from
him. Every day when the baker brings the bread, I put it on the scale
and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it
is the baker."

What is the moral of the story? We get back in life what we give to others.

Whenever you take an action, ask yourself this question - Am I giving
fair value for the wages or money I hope to make ?

Honesty and dishonesty become a habit. Some people practice
dishonesty and can lie with a straight face. Others lie so much that they
don't even know what the truth is anymore. But who are they deceiving ?
Themselves -- more than anyone else.

Honesty can be put across gently. Some people take pride in being
brutally honest. It seems they are getting a bigger kick out of the
brutality than the honesty. Choice of words and tact are important.

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