This story was told to me during my stay in Afghanistan.
One bus driver plying the route Kabul – Peshawar and back notice at the bus stop in Jalalabad (the ‘half-way’ city) a middle aged man playing the ‘banju’ (like a guitar) and being always very happy.
One day the bus driver asked him ‘how come you are always so happy’?
The man replied ‘ I have two wives …’
The bus driver said ‘thanks’ and rushed off. Back home in Kabul he quickly married a second wife. Unfortunately the two started fighting and made life very difficult. Next time while passing Jalalabad he shouted at the man ‘you put me in trouble’ !
The banju-player replied: ‘You did not hear me out. I said ‘and one is in Kabul and the other in Peshawar and I am here in between in peace’.
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