Mr. Boggis was walking forward Rummins’ house vey happy. He was happier than any day. He couldn’t believe that he was going to be the owner of that beautiful old piece of furniture. “I’m going to be famous, I’m not going to be poor anymore”, he said smiling. He was even, making his new future plans.

When he was approaching to the house, he saw the men’s faces very tired, but didn’t suspect what had just happened. He couldn’t think of anything else, but his future life. Once he arrived in his car, he asked them why they looked so tired. It was a complete surprise and deception when he heard what they said. “We have cut the legs off in order to make it easier to put them on your car, you don’t have to thank for that, you have been very polite with us, that’s why we wanted to make this little gift for you”.

As mister Boggis heard that, his face turned into red, he could not even breathe. He thought the world was over, his life was over. It was the best opportunity he had never had and now it was over. “What kind of stupid are you? Why did you do it? Did I ask you to it?” The three men could no understand what was happening. He had been so kind, and now he was acting like a crazy. “Why are you so angry?” Rummis asked him, “You said you just wanted the legs of the table. Also, you said it was fake, it can be occupied like firewood”.

Mr. Boggis was silent. He couldn’t pronounce any word. Suddenly, he kicked Rummis. He wanted to kill the three men. They had broken his dream, his only opportunity to be famous. While he was fighting, Bert and Claud tried to stop the fight by hitting him. They did not want to do it, but Mr. Boggis was acting like a monster. They had never seen somebody so angry like him.

Claud and Bert were doing their best in order to stop the fight and not to hurt Mr. Boggis, who never stopped shouting and kicking everybody in there. Some minutes later, Mr. Boggis fainted and fell to the ground like a dead.

While Mr. Boggis was on the ground, the three men asked themselves what had happened, but they found no answer. So Rummis decided to look for some clue in M. Boggis’ car, which they thought was a very expensive one for a clergyman.

Rummins started looking at the back seats, then at the front seats, but couldn’t find anything. Then, he looked at the glove compartment and saw a document, which indicated Mr. Boggis’ real work.

“He is not a clergyman. This man is a dealer in antique furniture, and has got his own showroom. Of course, he wanted to buy our table cheaper than the real price. Perhaps, it is much more expensive than the amount of money he was going to pay for. This wretched thought we were stupid ” Rummis said.

“And surely, it was not a fake piece of furniture, perhaps it was a really famous one, that is why he became so angry when he saw the table destroyed” Bert added.There was a silence. Nobody was talking. All of them were thinking about the sham. They were all so disappointed with themselves.

“What are we going to do with the man?” Claud asked, but nobody answer. Then, Rummis said, “we were very kind with this man, he made us think he was a kind clergyman looking for old furniture, but it was all a complete lie, and he will be well in some minutes and will go out. But, we cannot allow it. He tried to lie us, he made us to cut our old table, which by the way, was not fake”.

What will we do so? Bert asked. They were looking for a solution when Claud said “we cut the table because we thought it was fake and served for nothing. Now think, this man is a fake as well, and doesn’t serve for anything, so what we have to do now, it is to kill him”.

“Well said, there are some legs to cut” said Rummis, who went to bring the saw. In some minutes, they had cut Mr. Boggis legs off, as well as they did with the table, and then, they dug a deep hole and put Mr. Boggis’ body in there. Bert hid the car, and after finishing “the work”, all of them went into the house, like if nothing had happened.

Some days later, the police was looking for Mr. Boggis, who had disappeared mysteriously. They suspected he was dead. One day, a policeman went to Rummis’ house and asked “have you seen him before. Probably he is dead, and now, we are looking for the killers”. “Oh! My dear sir, I’m afraid I can’t help you, I’m not a killer, the only thing i have made disappear, was a fake “piece of furniture” ”.

Work and family: if we think about the relation between these two words, we can realize that they are completely related. Work and family are part of our whole life. That is why, it is very important to understand the roll that both play in our life, and how important are for us.

Actually, both (work and family) make us happy and fulfilled. The first one, family, makes us feel lots of emotions. Members of our family are with us in good and bad moments, they support our opinions and decisions, want the best for us, and they also give us lots of pieces of advice to do right things. The second one, work, is a very important thing in people´s life, because it lets us grow professionally and make money, which is also important.

We cannot neither dedicate more time to one of them, nor mix them. So, when we are working, we should not be thinking about our family. For example, if we have a problem with any family member we cannot solve it at work, it is not correct. On the other hand, we cannot be worried about work when we are with our family. We must dedicate the correct time to each of them.

Sometimes, it is very difficult not to mix them, but we have to know that we can have a lot of problems if we do it. It is exactly what happened in the story “Jack Randa Hotel”. We can realize that they, Gail and Will, did not give the real importance to these two things. Gail, for example, had not appreciated how valuable her family was. She had left home when she was just eighteen years old to discover the world and start working, and she had no more contact with them. It is true that we can do many things when we are young, but we cannot be dedicated to just one thing. It is more valuable when we are able to live giving the correct importance to everything. Gail also gave more importance to her husband, Will, and did not seem to care about her work, because she sold her shop and went in search of Will. So, we can see that she didn’t know to make a balance.

When we are not able to live in harmony with both, we can have many other problems, not just stop talking to our family. For example, some people can get divorce. Something similar occurred with Gail and Will, who stopped living together because he had fallen in love with a younger woman. Here is another relevant thing to say: communication is very important. That is, if we have any kind of problem, we must talk with people who are related in order to get a solution. It is a very bad idea to say nothing we do not agree whit somebody, or when we do not feel comfortable with something.

I have not heard somebody saying that he or she has never had a problem at work or with their family. It is something very common. Everybody has problems but not everybody can and want to get a solution. Some people say that it is very difficult to find solution for some problems, but I would say that sometimes we are who do not want to find it. Finally, I could say that the key to our success is to find a balance between work and family. if we are able to do it, we will feel fulfilled.