The Baker and the Farmer

A baker was always buying a pound of butter from a farmer each week. One day, after several weeks of buying the pound of butter, the baker decided to weigh the butter himself to check if it weighs correctly.

To his surprise and enragement, the butter he bought the farmer was under a pound. Feeling cheated, he filed a complaint against the farmer and took him to court.
The judge from the court asked how the farmer weighs his butter. The farmer replied that since he is poor, he doesn’t own an exact measuring tool. Instead, what he uses was a scale.

The judge asked the farmer to elaborate on how he uses the scale to measure the butter.

The farmer said that he’s been buying one pound of bread from the baker long before he sold butter to him. Whenever he buys bread, he uses the scale to measure it and this is how he measures his butter.

If his butter is less than a pound, it would mean that the pound of bread was also less than promised.

 

Moral of the Story:

Don’t do unto others what you don’t want others to do unto you.

In the story, the baker tried to cheat the farmer and in return, the farmer unintentionally cheated the baker as well. The more honest you act towards others, the easier it is for trust to occur between you and them. If you want others to treat you right, just remember that you get what you give.