> Donald MacDonald from the Isle of Skye went to study at an English
> university and was living in the hall of residence with all the other
> students there. After he had been there a month, his mother came to visit
> him.
> 
> "And how do you find the English students, Donald?" she asked.
> 
> "Mother," he replied, "they're such terrible, noisy people. The one on
> that
> side keeps banging his head on the wall and won't stop. The one on the
> other side screams and screams all night."
> 
> "Oh Donald! How do you manage to put up with these awful noisy English
> neighbors?"
> 
> "Mother, I do nothing. I just ignore them. I just stay here quietly,
> playing my bagpipes."
> 
> ******