Market Flies

Market Flies(Nasser Ahdash) Market Flies

At the end of the village market was the honey shop. The honey seller was suffering from flies. This is because flies dearly love his honey. This problem became much worse over time to an extent some people sarcastically start to call his shop the flies shop. The honey seller complained to his friends and neighbors. He told them market flies drive his customers away and his business is going down by the day.

One friend advised him to talk to the "WALI"; that he might be able to find him a solution. So he did.

The WALI listened carefully, and then simply told him "That is no problem, just take your shoe off and hit each fly that comes near your honey jars. after some days, all flies in the market will know that you are a clean seller and leave your honey alone". "Yes sir" he replied.

So he started using his shoe to drive the flies away or even try to kill them and sometimes in his speedy reactions, when he throws one shoe away he uses the other one. His problem became worse, specially when he misses and hits a honey jar instead of a fly and honey spills all over his shop floor which means more flies in the shop. This is made people come to his shop mainly not as customers but as spectators of his battles against files!

After weeks the WALI visited the market with his guards and of course Some People surrounded him. He asked to see the honey shop. People showed him the way. He came close and asked the honey seller, "How about our solution? is it successful? Are the flies leaving you alone?" at this moment; suddenly a fly stopped right on the WALI`s head… most of the people in the crowd take their shoes off and throw them in the direction of the fly to the WALI`s head. The terrified WALI and his guards ran away!

One of the supporters of the WALI shouted "It is not legitimate to assault the WALI"!

An old woman replied "Is it legitimate to cleanse our market flies with shoes"!?

Nasser Ahdash
Benghazi – Libya
10-09-2013