2010年12月3日星期五

$20 worth of time


A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door by.
"Dad, can I ask you a question?"
"Sure, what is it?" The father replied
"Daddy, how much do you make an hour?"
"This has nothing to do with you, why do you ask this question?" Father is angry of say
"I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?" Children begged
"If you must know it, I make $20 an hour"
"Oh!" Child low head such answer. Up.he said:
"Daddy, may I please borrow $10?"
The father was furious.
"If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a sill toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed, think about why you are being so selfish.
"I long hours every day with hard work, no time to play with you children's games" the little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.
The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions how dare he just for the money and ask this kind of question?
After about an hour or so, he had calmed down, and started thinking he might be a little hard on his son.
Perhaps he should buy with that $10 children really wanted, he didn't ask for money very often.
Father walked to the child's doors and opened the door.
"Are you asleep? Child?" He asked.
"Dad, haven't slept, I am awake" the little boy replied.
"I once thought, I just may be too hard on you earlier," said the father.
"I will today's aggravation flared out. This is the $10 you asked for"
Children sat straight up, smiling. "oh, thank you daddy" baby cries.
Then child from reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled upbills.
The father saw the boy already had money, started to get angry again.
The little boy slowly counted out his money, then looked at with the father.
"Why do you already had money still need more?" Father is angry of say.
"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy replied.
"Daddy, I have $20 now, can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow, I would like to have dinner with you."

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