As Mahatma Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped
off and landed on the track.


He was unable to retrieve it as the train was
moving.
 

To the amazement of his companions, Gandhi calmly took off his other shoe
and threw it back along the track to land close to the first.
 

Asked by a fellow passenger why he did so, Gandhi smiled. "The poor man who
finds the shoes lying on the track," he replied, "will now have a pair he
can use.