Friday, March 27, 2009

Albert Einstein was a household name now. Every kid knew who is was and was told by his mom to be like him. Einstein was on the other hand had little time for his own house. He was busy giving lectures, solving problems, and coming up with ingenious ideas. His driver, however had a bad bad time. He had to drive from one place to another and wait for Einstein to finish his long lectures in the car with hardly anything to do.

A day came when this driver, we will call him Athen, got bored of waiting for Albert. He thought, 'All my master does is go there and say everything written on his papers and comes back. Well, I can do that if allowed to.' He made up his mind to ask Albert permission to give a lecture. Einstein was always considerate of everyone around him so he acquiesced.

The next day, adorned with Einstein's suit and accessories; Athen rode at the back seat, while Einstein drove the car. As he stepped on the dice, the crowd applauded and he went on with everything in the papers he had learned by heart the night before. Thanks to limited access to photographs of famous people in those days, no one realised it was not Einstein.

After the lecture during the doubts session, he was confronted with a problem he could not solve. "Well" he said, "This is so easy a problem that even my driver can solve it." And then came in the real Einstein on dice to solve all the questions.