A husband said to his wife, ‘I miss my family. It’s been awhile since we last saw them. I hope you will prepare lunch tomorrow, so I can invite them.’
The wife said with a sigh, ‘God willing, it will be good.’
The husband said, ‘Alright, I will invite them’.
The next morning, the husband went to work. At one o'clock he came home, and said to his wife, ‘Did you cook lunch? My family will come in an hour.’
His wife replied, ‘No, I did not cook anything. Your family are not strangers, they can eat whatever is in the house.’
The husband said, ‘God forgive you! Why didn't you tell me yesterday that you wouldn’t prepare a meal? They will all soon be arriving, what will I do?’
The wife said, ‘Call them and apologize to them, after all, they are not strangers’.
The husband left the house upset. After a awhile, there was a knock on the door. The wife got up, opened the door and was surprised to see her parents, brothers, sisters and their children!
Her father asked her, "Where is your husband?"
‘He left a while ago,’ she replied.
Her father said, "Yesterday, your husband invited us for lunch. Is it possible for him to invite us and then leave the house?"
The wife was stunned by the news, and began rubbing her hands, puzzled that the food in the house was not befitting for her family. She called her husband and said to him, ‘Why didn't you tell me that you intended to invite my family for lunch?’
He said to her, ‘My family is your family, and yours is mine. There's no difference.’
‘Please bring takeout when you come home, there is no food here’.
Her husband responded, ‘I am far from home now. You told me family are not strangers, so apologize, and feed them from the food in the house that you wanted to feed my family.’
— credit Dik Badi
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