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4. Sand and Lies

A man comes up to the border of a country on his
motorbike. He has three large sacks on his bike. The
customs officer at the border crossing stops him and
asks, “What is in the sacks?”

“Sand,” answered the man.

The guard says, “We’ll see about that. Get off the bike.”

The guard takes the sacks and rips them apart; he
empties them out and finds nothing in them but sand.
He detains the man overnight and has the sand analyzed,
only to find that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags.
The guard releases the man, puts the sand into new
bags, lifts them onto the man’s shoulders and lets him
cross the border.

A week later, the same thing happens. The customs officer
asks, “What have you got?”
smuggle (v.):
contrabandear
“Sand,” says the man. rip apart
(phrasal verb):
destrozar
The officer does another thorough
examination and again discovers that the sacks contain
nothing but sand. He gives the sand back to the man, and
the man again crosses the border.

This sequence of events repeats every day for the next three
years. Then one day, the man doesn’t show up. The border
official meets up with him in a restaurant in the city.
The officer says, “I know you’re smuggling something and it’s
driving me crazy. It’s all I think about. I can’t even sleep. Just
between you and me, what are you smuggling?”

What is the man smuggling?

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