Some Jawans in a camp were unable to extract leave from the tricky officer who always wanted to talk the Jawans out their plan. If a Jawan said if he wanted to see his aligning mother, he would say that he himself  never went to see his own ailing mother. If a Jawan wanted to go for his sister’s wedding he would say he couldn’t attend his own sister’s marriage.

Finally a Jawan applied for leave and got it. The others asked him how he managed it. He said, “I told him that my wife eloped and my mother wanted to see me about it.”