Subject: Green Present
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Thu Dec 26 2002 - 09:15:29 EST
"Green Present"
During Christmas, a child is sitting in their living
room with his parents. His mother asks, "Son,
what do you want for Christmas?" The son
replies, "Well, I am not specifying anything
particularly, but I like the color green," having
money in mind.
On Christmas morning, the child ran down to
see his gift. He asks his mother on the stairs,
"Mom, what did I get for Christmas?"
The mother replies, "Son, it's something that
will let you see green all year long." The boy
very happily runs into the living room to see...
... the LAWN MOWER.
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"Poor Decision Making"
Tommy's house is packed with relatives for
Christmas dinner. Grandpa calls 6 year old
Tommy and starts asking about school, girlfriends
and other stuff he can think of. After a while,
grandpa notices that Tommy is loosing interest in
the conversation so he pulls out two bills from his
wallet to see if he can keep him interested. A ten
and a twenty dollar bill. He shows both bills to
Tommy and tells him that he can keep any one
he chooses. Tommy reaches over and grabs the
ten dollar bill.
Grandpa pretty surprised and upset about the
unwise decision his grandchild made, pulls out
another ten dollar bill to see if it was a mistake.
Again, he tells Tommy to take one of the bills
and keep it. Tommy grabs the other ten. Grandpa
again is surprised and upset. He takes Tommy
over to one of the uncles and shows him how
dumb Tommy is in choosing the ten over the
twenty. Grandpa goes on and on showing every
uncle and cousin and each time Tommy chooses
the ten over the twenty. Grandpa finally shows
the stunt to daddy. Daddy's quite surprise but
doesn't pay too much attention at the moment.
A few hours later, daddy who is very concerned
about Tommy's poor decision, walks up to him
and asks him if he knows the difference between
a ten dollar bill and a twenty. "Of course," answers
Tommy. "So why did you always choose the ten
over the twenty?" asks dad. Tommy, with a wide
smile answers, "Well dad, if I would have chosen
the first twenty dollar bill, do you think grandpa
would have played the game fifteen more times?"
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