Behave Your Age

Once a small boy and a lawyer were seated next to each other on a flight from Los Angeles to New York. As soon as the flight took off the lawyer turned around and asked the little boy if he would like to play a game that is fun and interesting.The boy refused since he wanted to sleep for a few hours. The lawyer insisted that the little boy must indeed play the game and explained the rules. “It is really lots of fun. I will ask you a question. If you cannot answer then you will give me $5 and vice versa,” he said.

The little boy tried to ignore the lawyer and pretended to turn the other way and Sleep. After a while when he turned around, he saw the lawyer peering at him “This time we will play it differently. If you don’t answer you pay $5. If I don’t answer I will pay You $500,” the lawyer said. The boy knew that unless he played a round the lawyer was not going to let him off. So he agreed to the lawyer’s terms.

“What is the distance between the sun and the earth?” This was the lawyer’s first question. The boy shook his head and took a five dollar bill from his pocket and gave it to the lawyer. It was now the boy’s turn to ask a question. “What goes up a hill on two hands and walks down on three?” asked the boy. 

The lawyer was perplexed by the question for he did not know the answer. He immediately opened his laptop and searched the web for answers. He mailed his friends and colleagues in desperation to find the answer but to no avail. No one could give an answer, frustrated the lawyer gave the boy a five hundred dollar bill.     

“Thank you said the boy in a relieved tone and settled down to sleep. The lawyer was annoyed that the boy had not given him the answer. So he shook him and asked, “What is the correct answer?”

The boy smiled, took out a five dollar bill, handed it over to the lawyer saying, “Who knows!”

Moral: Don’t let people take you for granted.