A lawyer and two friends, a Rabbi and a Hindu holy man, had car
trouble in the countryside and asked to spend the night with a farmer. The
farmer said, “There might be a problem; you see, I only have room for two
to sleep, one of you must sleep in the barn. “No problem,” spoke the
Rabbi, “My people wandered in the desert for forty years, I am humble
enough to sleep in the barn for an evening.” With that he departed to the
barn and the others bedded down for the night.
Moments later a knock was heard at the door; the farmer opened the
door; there stood the Rabbi from the barn. “What’s wrong?” asked the
farmer. He replied, “I am grateful to you, but I can’t sleep in the barn.
There is a pig in the barn and my faith believes that is an unclean
animal.” His Hindu friend agrees to swap places with him. But a few
minutes later the same scene reoccurs.
There is a knock on the door,
“What’s wrong, now? the farmer asks. The Hindu holy man replies, “I too am
grateful for your helping us out but there is a cow in the barn and in my
country cows are considered sacred. I can’t sleep on holy ground!” Well,
that leaves only the lawyer to make the change. He grumbled and complained
but went out to the barn.
Yep, you guessed it! Moments later there was another knock on the
farmer’s door. Frustrated and tired, the farmer opens the door, and there
stood the pig and the cow!