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A modern story of keeping promises
1. Washington cuts down trees

Washington was the first president of the United States, an outstanding American bourgeois politician, strategist and revolutionary, the founding father and founding father of the country, and the first president of the United States. When he was young, he cut down his father's two cherry trees. His father came back and was very angry. Washington voluntarily admitted to cutting down trees, and his father was very moved by his honesty.

2. The story of the auto repair shop

A customer walked into an auto repair shop and claimed to be the driver of the transportation company. Ask the shopkeeper to write more money on his order and submit it to the company for reimbursement. But the master refused. The customer pestered in every way, and the shopkeeper got angry. He asked the client to leave immediately and talk about it elsewhere. At this time, the customer smiled and shook the owner's hand appreciatively and said, "I have been looking for a fixed and reliable repair shop." Where else can you let me talk about this business? "

Soong Ching Ling kept her promise.

Soong Ching Ling once made an appointment with a primary school to visit primary school students, but on the appointed date, it rained heavily, and the students thought that her grandmother could not come, but Soong Ching Ling went to the appointment in the rain, which made the students very moved.

4. Keep your promise and crawl to work

There is a primary school principal in America. In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of all teachers and students, he publicly bet that if students read 1 15000 pages before1October 9, he would crawl to work on the 9th. After the students finished speaking, they waited to see the headmaster's jokes, thinking that he would definitely not honor them. Unexpectedly, at 7: 00 am on June 9th, 165438+ the headmaster really kept his promise and began to crawl on all fours to work. In order to be safe and not to affect the traffic, he climbed on the grass beside the road instead of the highway.

5. Guo Moruo steals flowers

Once, Guo Moruo's mother got a kind of "dizziness", and I heard that plantain flower can cure this disease. But this kind of flower is very expensive and rare, so he and his brother ran to a garden to look for it. Guo Moruo and his brother secretly picked it and gave it to their mother. Although the mother knew that Guo Moruo was filial to her, her son's behavior made her sad. Since then, Guo Moruo has never stolen anything from others.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Washington