Man asks Nasruddin to write a letter for him. Nasruddin says he cannot because of sore foot: his writing is so hard to read that he has to go with the letter to explain it, but his foot hurts too much to make the trip.
Notes: The story is told about a letter going to different cities: Konya, Baghdad, etc.
Here's my short version:
A man came to Nasruddin asking him to write a letter to his brother in Konya.
"I can't," said Nasruddin. "I've injured my foot."
"I don't understand," said the man. "You don't need your foot to write a letter."
"I can write the letter," replied Nasruddin, "but my handwriting is so bad that I need to accompany the letter in order to read the letter aloud when it arrives, and because my foot is hurt, I cannot make a trip to Konya at the moment."
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