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Habibi's Oranges.

Rust Bucket.@onnovocks (50)2571d
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Perspective!

In my life I had 3 father figures. Backgrounds; business, engineering, and diving. Bernardus, Hendrik, and Wing-wa.

This is the story of Habibi, حبيبي ..a Lebanese Merchant who ordered a Truck load of Oranges and had them delivered in the morning, sending them back in the afternoon saying they were rotten.

Wing-wa: Those are not our Oranges. Send him a new Truck load and we'll bill cabrón for the extra Oranges later.

Hendrik: We'll let a Judge deal with that. Those are not the Oranges we sent him and we can prove it.

Bernardus to the Truck driver: Dump the rotten Oranges in the Ocean and return for a new load.

He then walks into the Office and says: Attention everybody!

From now on Habibi pays 1 penny more for everything he buys. If we sell it by the pound; 1 penny more, by the case; 1 penny more, etc. Everybody clear on that? Good, keep this to yourselves.

This was in all likelihood the most profitable truck load of Oranges ever sold and Habibi spent years boasting how he ripped off Bernardus while still paying for it 20 years later...

Truth & Truth blended, the 3 never shared the same space in this capacity, nor would their perspectives have been equally effective in each other's disciplines. One would have lost all, the second may have broke even, but the third had the long breath in this matter, even if he never knew how to dive.

Deceit for common good, and a minor contribution to the stock of good public humor.

Sometimes we're blind and need to find a guide in matters where we have little insight.

Thank you for your time.

Comments · 4

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  • @sukhasanasister(63)· 2570d

    Habibi spent years boasting how he ripped off Bernardus while still paying for it 20 years later...

    The rip off only exists if

    a Truck load of Oranges and had them delivered in the morning, sending them back

    THEM are not referring to the SAME oranges, right?

    I finally see what you mean: Habibi gathers all the rotten oranges he hasn't been able to sell till he has a truck load full of them and then returns them as if they were the one's just delivered. Very elaborate ploy concretely for oranges but it happens all the time in one form or another.

    Still, the confusion was compounded by my interest in calculating/estimating HOW MUCH of a rip off it was with the penny increase being the same for either a truckload or a pound, or a case (or a bag). I have almost got my socks off to figure out how much more he probably is paying than one penny sounds like; Plus to me it sounds like Bernardus is still more down (for a long while) with two truckloads for the price of one sold. Depending, maybe on how many truckloads a week/day are sold?...

    But this is terrible. My confusion destroys the whole poetry. As I said I get the beautiful conclusion, and the whole piece oozes a simple plea for us getting real in business by becoming ethical people first, and being smarter about deals with larger perspectives formed by many cojoined. It exalts cooperation and shows how trust can only exist between the pragmatically trustworthy. Tough negotiation is fair in business. There is no place for sore losers. That is the kind of buisness I am used to (from my father)

    I think my analysis of it is out a curiosity for the textworld you are in and I have not enough ease of mobility in yet. I was keen to break down the analogy which has to be in there iron cast, knowing you.

    So you don't have to explain anything. But feel free to hand any additional notes.

  • @sukhasanasister(63)· 2571d

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