There was a man so lazy that he lay on his back under a fig tree, mouth open, waiting for the figs to drop into it. He waited and waited, but no figs fell directly into his mouth; they always landed just slightly outside.
Suddenly, someone walked by, and he called out to them, asking for help to pick the figs and put them in his mouth. The passerby was just as lazy; he used his foot to knock a fig and placed it in the other man’s mouth. Seeing this, the man exclaimed:
– What a disgrace! Who can be so lazy!
