The Shepherd and The Yuppie
A shepherd was herding his flocks in a remote pasture when suddenly a
brand new Jeep Cherokee advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in an Armani suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban
sunglasses and a YSL tie leaned out of the window and asked the shepherd:
"If I can tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock,
will you give me one?"
The shepherd looks at the yuppie, then at his peacefully grazing flock
and calmly answers, "Sure!"
The yuppie parks the car, whips out his PalmPilot, connects it to a
cell-phone, surfs to a NASA page on the Internet where he calls up a GPS
satellite navigation system, scans the area, opens up a database and
some 60 Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas. Finally he prints out a 150
page report on his hi-tech miniaturised printer, turns to the shepherd and
says:
"You have here exactly 1586 sheep!".
"This is correct, take one of the sheep" says the shepherd. He watches
the young man select an animal and bundle it into his Cherokee. Then he
says,
"If I can tell you exactly what your line of business is, will you give
me my animal back?"
"Okay, why not" answers the young man.
"You are a consultant" says the shepherd.
"That is correct" says the yuppie, "How did you guess that?"
"Easy" answers the shepherd. "You turn up here although nobody called
you. You want to be paid for the answer to a question I already knew the
answer to. And you don't know anything about my business because you took my
dog."
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