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Tommy's house is packed with relatives for Christmas dinner. Grandpa calls 6
year old Tommy and starts asking about school, girlfriends and other stuff
he can think of. After a while, grandpa notices that Tommy is loosing
interest in the conversation so he pulls out two bills from his wallet to
see if he can keep him interested. A ten and a twenty dollar bill. He shows
both bills to Tommy and tells him that he can keep any one he chooses. Tommy reaches over and grabs the ten dollar bill.
Grandpa pretty surprised and upset about the unwise decision his grandchild
made, pulls out another ten dollar bill to see if it was a mistake. Again,
he tells Tommy to take one of the bills and keep it. Tommy grabs the other
ten. Grandpa again is surprised and upset. He takes Tommy over to one of the
uncles and shows him how dumb Tommy is in choosing the ten over the twenty.
Grandpa goes on and on showing every uncle and cousin and each time Tommy chooses the ten over the twenty. Grandpa finally shows the stunt to daddy.
Daddy's quite surprise but doesn't pay too much attention at the moment.
A few hours later, daddy who is very concerned about Tommy's poor decision, walks up to him and asks him if he knows the difference between a ten dollar bill and a twenty.
"Of course," answers Tommy.
"So why did you always choose the ten over the twenty?" asks dad.
Tommy, with a wide smile answers, "Well dad, if I would have chosen the
first twenty dollar bill, do you think grandpa would have played the game
fifteen more times?"
Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
--Freya Stark
Bad Decisions
In 1836, Alabama is the first state in the USA to declare Christmas a legal holiday.
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