Bekri Mustafa rented a boat and was sailing from Üsküdar to Eminönü.
Right at the seraglio point a storm broke out. Bekri was a hyper sensitive person and got very anxious.

The boatman saw his panic and wanted to soothe him. So he said:

- Why are you so scared? You shouldn’t panic. God’s great!

Bekri got angrier and said:

- God may be great but the boat's too small!

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At the ballet


Temel and Cemal went to watch a ballet performance for the first time in their lives.

They saw that very thin girls were dancing on their tip-toes.

Temel leaned towards Cemal and said:

- "Isn’t that torture? Why don’t they let taller girls dance?"

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At midnight the Hodja heard a noise. Two men were struggling outside. The Hodja got out of his bed with a blanket over him and went to the front of his house. He asked them why they were fighting. Without answering, one of them took the blanket that covered the Hodja and they both fled. So the poor Hodja returned to his bed again.
“What were they fighting about?” asked his wife.

“About our blanket”, said the Hodja. “Now the blanket is gone, so the struggle is over.”