The Director And The Old Man

A Hollywood director was making a film in India. For the film, he needed to have clear blue skies, so the weather conditions were very important to him. One evening, after filming all day he saw a very old man, sitting with his legs crossed on the ground. 

  ‘It’s going to rain for three days. On the fourth day, the sun will shine again,’ the ancient man said wisely.

  The next day it rained heavily and there was no filming that day or for three days afterwards. On the morning of the fourth day, as the old man predicted, the sun was shining down and conditions were perfect for filming. That evening, when the director was walking past, the old man said, 

  ‘There’s going to be a big storm tomorrow.’ 

  Sure, enough, the next day there was a big storm, just as the man said. 

After a week of making perfect predictions, the director decided to use the old man’s wisdom and pay him to work as a weather man for the film crew. The old man agreed to tell the director what the weather was likely to be. This worked very well for the next few weeks of filming. Every day the old man told the director what the weather would be the next day, and the director paid him well for the valuable information. 

One day, however, the old man failed to arrive on the set. The next day the director sent for him and said, 

  ‘Your predictions are very important to me and to my work. I’m shooting a big scene tomorrow and I have to know what the weather is going to be like.’

  The old man shrugged his shoulders. 

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