A luxurious corporate office lobby decorated for the company owner's birthday celebration. Employees in formal attire mingle around a beautifully decorated cake table. A humble security guard in a neat but modest uniform stands near the entrance. The security guard says to the lady, "Happy birthday, Ma'am." The company owner replies, "Thank you. There's cake kept for you. Go and have some." The guard says, "Just a minute." And then gives her a gift, saying, "This is a small gift from my wife and me." She responds, "You don't even have enough money to buy groceries for your house, and your salary is not that high. What was the need to buy a gift?" The security guard replies, "You are like a sister to me. For me, you are more valuable than money. Please accept this. It will make me feel good." The owner thanks him, takes the gift, and leaves. But after coming out, she says, "This is the bad habit of poor people. They give a gift now, but tomorrow they'll ask for a salary raise." And throws the gift away. When the guard was going home to have his meal, he thought, "I gave ma'am such a nice gift, but half of my salary went into it. No problem. I'll earn it back by working overtime." But then he sees that the same gift is lying in the trash. He picks it up and says, "This is the same gift I gave ma'am. Maybe she dropped it by mistake, but how can such a big gift fall by mistake? Looks like she threw it away on purpose." Then the owner's husband comes to the guard and says, "It's ma'am's birthday yesterday, and you didn't come to eat cake." The guard replies, "I had some work, so I couldn't come." The security guard says, "I don't feel like eating cake." The man asks, "Are you hiding something from me? Tell me what happened." The guard says, "Nothing happened." The man insists, "Tell me the real truth." Finally, the guard says, "Since ma'am's birthday was coming, I saved money for many months to buy her a gift. But when I was going to eat, I saw that same gift lying in the trash. I felt really bad because I worked so hard to save money. But ma'am threw it away without even looking at it. That's why I didn't come to eat cake. The husband takes the gift from the guard, gives him the cake, and then removes his watch, saying, "Here, wear my watch." The guard asks, "But why?" The man replies, "What my wife did was very wrong. We'll teach her a lesson. You just wear this watch, and when she comes, just show it to her." Later, his wife comes and sees the guard wearing her husband's watch. Shocked, she goes back home and asks her husband, "The Watch, I gifted you? Where is it?" The husband replies, "I gave it to the guard." The wife says angrily, "The Watch, I gifted you with love. You gave to that poor guard." The husband gets angry and says, "I've worn that watch for one whole year. Now the guard will wear it. What's the problem?" The wife says, "It's not about how long you wore it. The important thing is that I gave it to you with love." The husband says, "So what?" The wife asks, "What did you just say?" The husband continues, "The poor guard gave you a gift with so much love, and you just threw it away. That guard worked so hard to save money to buy you a gift, and without even looking at it, you threw it in the trash." The owner replies, "So, you're fighting with me because of only the poor security guard, right? How much could this gift even cost? Maybe $50, maybe $100, and he only gave me this gift so that later he could ask me to increase his salary." Husband replies, never measure any gift from anyone by its price, "But tell me, after giving the gift, did he ever ask you for money? Did he ever say increase my salary?" No. Right. He considers you like his sister. That's why he gave it from his heart. The wife realizes and says, "You're right. He never once asked me for a salary raise. I misunderstood him. I threw his gift away. Now I will go and apologize to him." Did the husband teach his wife a good lesson?
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