These days when I listen to the radio on my cell phone, I zoom through my stations list to stop at either 100.7 FM Gold or 107.1 FM Rainbow. True, they have more than their fair share of banal RJs (I particularly hate the one who calls herself Maya because she talks nonsense and punctuates that nonsense with her fake laugh!) but there are some good ones who share jokes and good stories with the listeners (and don’t treat them like half-wits!).

And of course there is no denying the fact that due to their network in the far-flung areas of the country these channels come up with news items which we would neither read on the newspapers nor see on TV। I remember listening one afternoon to how a man and a woman who were searching for donor kidneys for their spouses ran into each other in the same clinic and discovered that they were a suitable donor for the other person’s spouse. The couples belonged to different Indian states and they had to bring about a change in the laws of both the states to facilitate the organ donation!

One of the RJs shared a wonderful story the other day। There are 2 little kids – a boy and a girl – who are great friends. The boy has a box full of his favorite marbles and the girl has a box of her favorite sweets. Once they decide that they should exchange these boxes to seal their friendship. After the exchange they go to their respective homes.

The girl falls asleep soon enough but the boy remains awake – tossing and turning। The reason? When he gave his box of marbles to his friend he has kept one of his most favorite marbles to himself. And now he wonders if the girl has kept some of her favorite sweets for herself too.

So what’s the moral of the story? :-)