LittleMan
02-25-2005, 08:29 AM
In some small town on the other side of the states, there was a boy. Every day this boy would stand outside the local grocery store for hours at a time. All the other kids thought that he was pretty weird, and, lets say "A few cards short of a deck." For this the others would make fun of him by playing a little game. One kid would hold in one hand a dime, and in the other, a nickle. He would ask the special kid "Which one do you want? This small dime, or this BIG nickle?" And every time, the special kid would take the nickle, because it was bigger. This went on for a few weeks when the shopkeeper pulled him aside and said to him "Listen kid, those boys are makin' fun of you. Even thought its smaller, a dime is actually worth twice as much as a nickle!" "I know." was the kids response. "Then why do you keep taking the nickle?" the shopkeeper asked. The boy just looked at him and said: "If I took the dime, they would stop doing it, and I'm up to three dollars already!"