1. Some China students studying in Germany think that the Germans who follow the rules are very funny, and want to play a trick on them, so they put labels printed with the words "male" and "female" on the glass doors of two adjacent public telephone booths. It turns out that all Germans who call the telephone booth consciously enter the telephone booth by gender, just like the toilet. What is even more surprising is that if there are many callers of the same sex, they will queue up in the front row of their own "gender" phone booth and leave the phone booth of the other "gender" idle.

The China students who were amused and puzzled explained to the Germans that this was their prank and asked why they did it. The Germans calmly shrugged and said, "Rules are for people to abide by!"

2. A China student studying in Japan washes dishes for Japanese restaurants after school to earn tuition. There is an unwritten rule in Japanese catering industry: dishes must be washed with water for 7 times. Washing dishes is paid by the piece. This foreign student took it into account and washed dishes less once or twice. As a result, the labor efficiency was greatly improved. Japanese students asked him for skills, and he did not shy away: "Just wash it twice less." Japanese students gradually alienated from him.

occasionally, the restaurant owner checks the washing of dishes. In a spot check, the boss used a special test paper to measure that the cleanliness of the plate was not enough. When he asked the foreign student, he plausibly said, "There is not much difference between washing it five times and washing it seven times." The boss just said simply, "You are an unruly person, please leave."

3. Long Yongtu, the chief negotiator of China's WTO, introduced his experience: he was walking in a Swiss park with some friends, and when he went to the toilet, he heard a "bang" sound next door, and he was a little puzzled. After coming out, a lady said anxiously that her son had been in the toilet for more than ten minutes and had not come out, so please ask him to take a look. Long Yongtu turned back to the bathroom and opened the "banging" compartment. He saw a seven-or eight-year-old child working on the toilet, but he couldn't flush the water, so he was full of sweat. It turns out that children think it's against the rules not to flush in the toilet. For this reason, Long Yongtu was very emotional: flushing water when going to the toilet is the most basic rule in society, and a child can consciously follow the rules, which can be seen from the Swiss citizens' awareness of rules.

4. One night in 1764, a big fire destroyed the Harvard library, and many precious ancient books were destroyed, which made people feel sad. The next day, the school learned about this major accident, and a student was particularly somber.

The sudden fire pushed the ordinary student to a special position and forced him to make a choice. Before that, he violated the library rules and quietly took a book donated by Harvard pastor out of the library, ready to read it leisurely before returning it. Suddenly, this book became the only rare book among 251 books donated by Harvard. What should we do? Are ghosts and gods secretly taking it for themselves, or are they openly admitting their mistakes? After a fierce ideological struggle, the nervous students finally knocked on the room of the principal's office, explained the reasons and solemnly returned the book to the school. President Horiak's next move was even more surprising. He accepted the book to express his gratitude, praised the student's courage and honesty, and then expelled him from the school.

5.

Tom is my American colleague. He is thirty years old from California. Not long ago, we went on a business trip together, which made me know him a little more.

that day after we arrived at the booked hotel from the airport, he walked out of the room and wandered outside the corridor. I said, "Tom, why don't you go back to your room and rest?" He said very seriously, "I am familiar with the hotel environment and see where the safe passage is. In case of a fire, we will not panic."

the next morning, we all got up late, thinking that the customer was still waiting for us, so we hurried out of the hotel without breakfast, and we saw Mr. Chen, the customer across the street, waving to us. I strode across the road, but Tom grabbed me and said, "Mr. He, there is no zebra crossing here. It is very dangerous to cross directly." "Nothing, I often do this." I said dismissively. "Cars generally don't slow down when there is no zebra crossing in front. It's really dangerous for you to cross the road like this." Tom said seriously. "We have kept our customers waiting. There is an overpass ahead, but it will take at least ten minutes to cross it. How bad!" "To save time, let's run all the way!" Tom said, pulling me to run in the direction of the footbridge. When we came to Mr. Chen panting, we just saw a speeding car knock down a young man crossing the road. I couldn't help taking a gasp. When I saw Tom sweating profusely, I suddenly realized that it wasn't that the foreigner was timid. In fact, he was being kind to life, and the most important thing to be kind to life was to obey the rules.