"An empty table" joke
THE following is a true story: Mr S. N. Talukdar, the Director of the R&D Institute of the ONGC, and Dr V. V. Sastri, the Additional Director, were often at loggerheads as is normally the case with geologists. Mr Talukdar, son of a former ICS official in the Raj, had a fetish about neatness and enforced it in the Institute with a strong hand. One morning during his rounds through the Institute, Mr Talukdar peeped into Dr Sastri's office. Dr Sastri was not in his office at that time and Mr Talukdar observed that the room was extremely messy. He left a note saying:' A cluttered table represents a cluttered mind,' and walked out.
Sometime later, Dr Sastri came back to his office and hit the roof on reading Mr Talukdar's note. He stormed into his superior's office to settle scores. Fortunately for him, Mr Talukdar was not in his office. That helped him to cool off.
Later in the day, when Mr Talukdar entered his office, he found the following note waiting for him on his neat table:' If a cluttered table represents a cluttered mind, what does an empty table represent?'
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