One day Nasreddin goes to a shop and looks a pair of pants and puts them back without buying them and then looks at a shirt with the same price and walks away with the shirt .
The shop owner yells at him :
- "Hey you didn't pay for that shirt!"
- "But I put the pants back instead" Nasreddin responds.
- "You did not pay for the pants !"
- "Why I should pay for the pants if I put them back ? " Nasreddin responds.
* In Persian literature, Molla Nasreddin is a character who lived in 13th century. he does silly things showing philosophical paradoxes . my translations are not word by word but meaning by meaning.
