An Indian went to Singapore to buy a video. He went into a shop and asked, “What is the price of this video near the window?” The seller answered, “Sorry sir, we don’t sell to Indians.”
The Indian went back to his hotel and dressed in his best clothes. Back at the shop, again he asked, “What is the price of this video near the window?”
To his dismay, the seller replied, “Sorry sir, we don’t sell to Indians.”
The Indian went back to his hotel and dressed in Western-style clothes — shorts, T-shirt, sunglasses. Returning again to the shop, the Indian was most upset to receive the same answer to his enquiry. In exasperation he asked, “How do you know that I’m an Indian?”
“Oh,” said the seller, “that’s easy. The machine near the window is not a video, it is a washing machine.”
