Have you ever done anything really foolish? Maybe it wasn’t your fault. Maybe you were simply in a situation you didn’t understand.

There is a story of a man from a third world country who came to this country. He went with a friend to a restaurant. They ordered tea.

The waitress brought them a pot of boiling water and set cups and some tea bags in front of them. The third world man poured a cup of hot water. Then he picked up the tea bags and tore them open and proceeded to dump the tea into the cup of hot water.

The man with him gently explained to him that this was not how the tea bags were intended to be used. They were made so they could be put in the water and the water would seep through the tea bags and there would be no messy leaves in the cup.

Well the newcomer thought that w…