Anecdote: A picture is worth more than a few words

On a recent trip I visited with some old friends for a few days.

Some of her family is a little suspect. At some point she told me story that describes how.

Many years before she was visiting with some relatives, I think a pair of aunts. The three of them were sorting out the belongings of another recently deceased relative. At that particular moment they were sorting though old albums and pictures. Some are being tossed, and some are being kept.

My friend notices one that's just been tossed onto the discard pile. She picks up the photo, and she can't believe what it is. It's a snapshot of Mahatma Gandhi. Not a clipping, not a repro, but family snapshot of Gandhi.

She picks it out of the discard pile. Thinking that that her aunts didn't recognize it, she asks them, "Do you know who this is?"

The aunts squint at it for a second, and then one replies, "That's the horrible little man that ruined India for us."