Just before a young kid enters the shop, the barber tells his customer, "Watch this. He has got to be the dumbest kid in the world."
The barber motions the kid over and puts a dollar in one open palm and 50 cents in the other. He then asks the kids, "Pick one." The kid takes the 50 cent coin and leaves.
"What did I tell you?" the barber says, laughingly.
Later the customer passes the boy nearby, just outside a candy stall. "Why did you take the 50 cents and not the dollar?" he asks.
The kid replies, "Because the day I take the dollar the game's over."
