Two children were skating on a frozen pond in Germany. It was a cold and cloudy afternoon. The two kids were just carelessly enjoying themselves.
Suddenly, the ice gave way and one of them fell and got trapped in the cracks in the ice.
The other boy, seeing his friend stucked as he was and freezing, got hold of one his skates and started to break the icy edges around with all his strength until at last he was able to pull him away free.
When the firefighters arrived and surveyed what had happened, they asked the child who had rescued his friend:
- How did you manage to do that? It's impossible for you to break the ice! You're too little and not strong enough!
At that moment, Albert Einstein, who happened to walk by, said:
- I know how he did it.
- How? Tell us – they asked him.
- It's simple, Einstein replied, there was no a single person around to tell him that he wouldn't be able to do that.
(Translated by Alvin Gongora)
