A Mullah Nasruddin story
Gone gray
Nasreddin often quarreled violently with his elderly mother, and she chided him: “My son! My hair has turned gray — only due to your constant contradicting and quarreling with me!”
He replied: “It may be that your disputes with me have made your hair turn gray, but tell me this: who told you to pull all your teeth?”
Excerpted from the forthcoming Extraordinary Adventures of Nasreddin.
Sources
Marzolph 109.