This witty short story cleverly exposes how double standards arise from personal biases and perspective. Through a polite yet subtly competitive exchange between two mothers, it reveals how identical situations can be judged completely differently depending on who’s involved. One woman praises her son’s wife for being lazy and spoiled, while the same behavior in her daughter’s husband is seen as angelic devotion.
The humor and irony lie in this contrast—showing how favoritism and relationship roles shape our perceptions without us even noticing. It’s a sharp but lighthearted critique of human nature and the often unconscious ways we apply different rules to “us” versus “them.”
