Poison attitude

A Chinese girl named Li-li got married and moved in with her new husband, unfortunately for Li-li her mother-in-law also lived there. Since her mother-in-law was very obnoxious and Li-li did not like having her live with her and her new husband, Li-li decided to kill her Mother-in-law.

In hatching her plan  Li-li went to her doctor to get slow-acting poison. The doctor gave her the poison, but said, “Just so that people don’t suspect you, treat your mother-in-law very nice,treat her like you’d want to be treated.” So Li-li obliged and was nice to her mother-in-law as she slipped a little poison into her food each day.

However, to Li-li surprise, a funny thing happened. The two started getting along and became best of friends. Realizing that she may have already done some harm Li-li went back to the doctor and said, “I now love my mother-in-law and don’t want to kill her; please give me something to counteract the poison.” The doctor replied, “I gave you ordinary vitamins; the only poison was in your attitude.”

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