Don’t bother coming
Nasruddin riding his donkeyOne night Fatima felt horribly ill and asked for the doctor, Berrak, so Nasruddin was going to get him to come visit her. As he was leaving the house, however, she sat up in bed and called out to Nasruddin, “By God’s grace, I’m healed! My pain has left me and I no longer need a doctor!”
Nasruddin said, “Yes, dear,” and then hurried on his way to the doctor’s house.
When he arrived, breathless, Berrak asked, “Why have you run here to get me?”
Nasruddin replied, “My wife was in quite a bit of pain but, just as I was leaving the house, her aching suddenly stopped, so I’ve come to tell you not to bother coming.”
Excerpted from The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, Jests, and Donkey Tales of the Beloved Persian Folk Hero
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Fatima is most likely ill from some sort of hypochondria or bad gas, since she so miraculously heals herself without the doctor. Nasruddin, however, is not interested in letting it be; he still persisted in running all the way to the doctor’s house to tell him not to come for the visit he was about to ask him to make to make Fatima better.
We can just imagine the doc’s stunned silence.
