Interesting Conversation Between A Rich Man & A Hair Dresser

• Dawnfirstlight

  12 Nov 11, 18:42

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  There was a rich man who was very stingy. He hardly donate to charity. One day, he went for a hair cut. His hairdresser said to him " You must be a very rich man." The rich man was very happy to hear that. The hair dresser carried on to tell the rich man that no matter how rich he was, he was only $3000 richer than him.

  The rich man was very angry and asked why the hair dresser said that. The hair dresser asked him to cool down and asked him how much was the cheapest and the most expensive coffin. The rich man said the cheapest was about $1000 and the most expensive was about $4000. The hair dresser said he was poor so most likely he would be lying in the cheapest coffin which was $1000 and the rich man would be lying in the most expensive coffin which was $4000. The last property the rich man would have was only $3000 more than the hair dresser.

  The rich man was suddenly enlightened and began to donate.  

• DailyFreeGames.com

  13 Nov 11, 00:00

  The most expensive coffin only $4000? What if he buy a diamond studded 10 billion coffin? The story not convincing enough.
• Dawnfirstlight

  13 Nov 11, 09:10

  Originally posted by DailyFreeGames.com:

  The most expensive coffin only $4000? What if he buy a diamond studded 10 billion coffin? The story not convincing enough.

  Ha ha..... do you think his family members will spend so much money to buy a 10 billion dollars coffin for him? They will rather inherit as much money as they can from him. So far, have you seen anybody splurge on coffins? I've not heard of so far as it is not reported in the newspaper.

• DailyFreeGames.com

  14 Nov 11, 00:49

  Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:

  Ha ha..... do you think his family members will spend so much money to buy a 10 billion dollars coffin for him? They will rather inherit as much money as they can from him. So far, have you seen anybody splurge on coffins? I've not heard of so far as it is not reported in the newspaper.

  
  not sure but i mean, there may be people who are super religious... they may not buy 10 billion dollar coffin lah, lol, that was just an example it could be 100k or 500k to the billionaire it's cheap... like the religious ones built pyramids which i would think it's a giant coffin...
• Dawnfirstlight

  14 Nov 11, 23:22

  Originally posted by DailyFreeGames.com:

  
  not sure but i mean, there may be people who are super religious... they may not buy 10 billion dollar coffin lah, lol, that was just an example it could be 100k or 500k to the billionaire it's cheap... like the religious ones built pyramids which i would think it's a giant coffin...

  Well, that's possible but may be only the minority. Here we are talking about the majority.

• Leogirldreamer

  15 Nov 11, 15:20

  very good story.  I enjoyed reading it and will pass the story on. 

• Leogirldreamer

  15 Nov 11, 15:23

  i think this stingy weathy man realised that he could not bring his wealth with him upon death and even a not so rich guy can claim he is poorer only by the value of the coffin.

   

  so your total wealth in the end is just the value of the coffin.  lols....

• Dawnfirstlight

  15 Nov 11, 22:51

  Originally posted by Leogirldreamer:

  i think this stingy weathy man realised that he could not bring his wealth with him upon death and even a not so rich guy can claim he is poorer only by the value of the coffin.

   

  so your total wealth in the end is just the value of the coffin.  lols....

  Yeah, you are right!

  so your total wealth in the end is just the value of the coffin.  lols.... I like this sentence. I did not think of our total wealth value is just the value of the coffin till I read this story.

• Leogirldreamer

  19 Nov 11, 17:50

  dawnfirstlight, such a good joke, i post it on the other buddhism forum to share with others there.