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"She is beautiful, tall, well-built, a good cook, a smart woman, with integrity," he listed.
But the client said, "But you left out one important thing, didn't you?"
"Not possible," said the matchmaker. "What could I have left out?"
"That she limps," said the young man.
"Oh!" came the answer, "But only when she walks!"
Or, another:
A matchmaker told a young man that he had the perfect girl for him. "She is a redhead!" he exclaimed with pride.
"You mean Becky, the tailor's daughter?" cried the young man. "That's her!" beamed the matchmaker.
"You're crazy! She's almost blind!"
"That bothers you? That's a blessing. Half the time she won't be seeing what you are doing."
"But she also stutters!"
"That's also a blessing. A woman who stutters will be afraid to speak, so you'll live a peaceful life."
"But she is deaf!"
"I should have such luck! With a deaf wife you can shout, you can scream as much as you want to."
"But she's twenty years older than I am!"
"Ah," retorted the matchmaker disgustedly. "I bring you a woman with such gifts, and you pick on one little fault!"
People who are out just to exploit a situation will not bother whether anything comes out of it or not. They go ON preaching to you: Become Jesus, become Buddha, become like Kabir.... And down the ages they have been saying this and nobody has been able to do it. Still they go on. It is good business. It is very bad for humanity, but it is good business for them. They want you to go on feeling more and more guilty, condemned, worthless. The more worthless you feel, the more easily you go and become their victims.
And they don't want to change the subject. They want to insist on the same old nonsense again and again. They go on changing the form of it, the language of it, the style of it, but they don't want to change the subject.
Peterson came home at three in the morning and found his wife lying awake in bed.
"Where were you until three o'clock in the morning?" she screamed.
As she spoke, Peterson opened his bedroom closet and found a naked man cringing on the floor.
"Who
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