A man was climbing a hill on his bicycle when he veered too close to the edge of the path and tumbled several hundred feet down the side of the hill. Dazed, he was just starting to assess the damage when President Obama walked past with a tandem bicycle. “Hop on, and we’ll get back up that hill in no time,” said the president. “You pedal, and I’ll steer and shift.”

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A man was walking across the street and got hit by a car. An ambulance crew rushed him to the nearest hospital. The hospital was a training hospital, and the man began to see a steady stream of student doctors. Some of them diagnosed a broken wrist, some diagnosed a broken leg. One doctor thought he saw cancer on the x-rays. Another pointed out his elevated cholesterol and his male-pattern baldness. One of the nurses kept changing the man’s bandages because she was worried his scrapes would become infected. The student doctors and nurses ordered many tests and procedures that kept the man in the hospital so long he caught a lethal infection and died.

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A clever man found himself with many debts after a business venture failed. Despite having the ability to make payments on his debt, the clever man decided to declare bankruptcy and walk away from his mortgage. After his debts were discharged, he was unable to keep from boasting about his cleverness to his friends. When his neighbors found out what he had done, they picked him up, took him to the top of the mountain, and threw him off the highest cliff.

Halfway down, the clever man was enlightened.

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