Smart or dumb.

jon f mn · Oct 11, 2013

A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, 'This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.

'The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, 'Which do you want, son?'

The boy takes the quarters and leaves the dollar.
...
'What did I tell you?' said the barber. 'That kid never learns!'

Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store & says; 'Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?'

The boy licked his cone and replied, 'Because the day I take the dollar, the game's over!'

NCWayne · Oct 11, 2013

A friend of mine often tells the story about an old guy that used to come around his fathers place years ago panhandling. The old guy was kind of a comminuty icon, or whatever you want to call him (think Otis the drunk on Andy Griffith). My buddy said his dad would always offer the guy a similar deal when he asked for 'a few dollars', and he would always take the smaller amount that was offered. My buddy said he asked the old guy years later why he never took the larger amount and he said the same thing. By taking the smaller amount he always got what he needed and nothing more, but if he had taken the larger amount, the 'game' would have been over and he wouldn't have had what he needed when that money was gone, and no more was coming his way. Basically the old guy knew something that many nowdays have forgotten... it never pays to be greedy.

Adirondack case guy · Oct 11, 2013

Jon,
It took a moment, but that is a good one!!
Loren

Pair-a-dice farm · Oct 11, 2013

(quoted from post at 18:17:20 10/11/13) A friend of mine often tells the story about an old guy that used to come around his fathers place years ago panhandling. The old guy was kind of a comminuty icon, or whatever you want to call him (think Otis the drunk on Andy Griffith). My buddy said his dad would always offer the guy a similar deal when he asked for 'a few dollars', and he would always take the smaller amount that was offered. My buddy said he asked the old guy years later why he never took the larger amount and he said the same thing. By taking the smaller amount he always got what he needed and nothing more, but if he had taken the larger amount, the 'game' would have been over and he wouldn't have had what he needed when that money was gone, and no more was coming his way. Basically the old guy knew something that many nowdays have forgotten... it never pays to be greedy.

Somewhere in there is a lesson that the federal government needs to learn.

2badlybent · Oct 11, 2013

That was a lesson the grain brokers should have known last fall. They held out for that $7.50 corn last year and the export market went elsewhere. Looks like this year they want crop farmers to sell for $4.00 0r less. The fools drove all the buyers away.

Vito · Oct 11, 2013

Amen to that statement.

Vito

Owen Aaland · Oct 11, 2013

Inflation has hit even this joke. It used to be a choice between a nickle and a dime.

Hay hay hay · Oct 12, 2013

I csn remember when we could talk and tell jokes without turning everything into a political statement.

chuck t · Oct 12, 2013

I was watching a guy plow a field that was a few hundred yards long. His dog followed him across the field but when he got to about 100 yards from the end of the field the dog laid down in the fresh furrow to wait for the master to turn around and come back. He then followed across the field again. Thought it was one smart dog. Later I thought if he was real smart he would sit in the middle of the field and just step over to the new furrow when the tractor passed.

ricb · Oct 12, 2013

I think Charlie pride sang the song. it was pretty much verbatim to what the post said.

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