Nasruddin was eating a piece of bread while he was walking around town. This was back in the old days, when people were not used to seeing someone who was eating while he was walking.
"Why are you eating that bread out here where everyone can see you?" someone asked. "Isn't that a strange thing to do?"
Nasruddin shook his head. "There's nothing strange about it." Nasruddin took a bite of bread, and then he continued, "If something is not strange when you do it alone, why should it be strange if you do it in front of other people?"
Inspired by: The Best Anecdotes of Nasreddin Hoca by Kemal Yorenc
Notes: This story is on p. 41 of the book. A friend of mine from Italy stayed with me one summer while she was taking a summer school course and she said one of the strangest things she saw in America was people eating while they were walking around.
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