Nasrudin was working for an employer who complained to him one day. “You’re doing everything too slowly,” he said. “There’s no reason for you to go to the bazaar three separate times to buy material—you surely can do it all at once.”
Then several days later, the employer said to Nasrudin, “I’m sick—get a doctor.” Nasrudin came back with a doctor and two other people, causing his boss to ask, “Who are the other two people?”
“Well,” explained Nasrudin, “in order to save myself from making extra trips, I also brought the imam, in case we need to pray for your recovery, and the undertaker, in case you die!”