December 20th, 1979

The Red and Blue Coat

Once there were two boys, that were great friends, and they were determined to stay that way forever. When they grew up, they built their houses to face one another. There was a small path, that formed a border between their farms.

One day, a trickster from the village decided to pull a trick on them.

He dressed in a two-color coat that was divided down the middle, so that one side of the coat was blue, and the other was red. The trickster wore his coat, and walked along the narrow pathway between the houses of the two friends. The trickster made enough noise so that each one of them would look up and see him passing.

At the end of the day, one friend said to the other, “Wasn’t that a beautiful red coat that man was wearing?”

“No,” the other replied. “It was blue coat.”

“No, I saw the man clearly as he walked between us,” the first said. “His coat was red.”

“You are wrong,” said the other man. “I saw it too now. His coat was blue.”

They kept on arguing, over, and over, and over, insulting each-other, and eventually began to beat each-other, and roll around on the ground.

Just then, the trickster returned, and faced the two men, who were pushing and kicking each-other, and shouting;

“We’re no longer friends!”

The trickster walked directly in front of them, and showed them his coat. He laughed at their silly fight.The two men realized that one side of his coat was red, and the other was blue.

They stopped yelling and looked at the trickster and said;