Saturday, 20 February 2016

Single Irish Chain Block

One morning a grocer put a sign out that read, “Eggplants: twenty-five cents apiece, three for one dollar.” All day long customers walked in and complained about the sign. “I should get four eggplants for a dollar!” they all said. The grocer apologized profusely to each and every customer and he put four eggplants in bags for them. By the end of the day he was sold out of eggplants. The manager of a shoe store next door came in at the end of the day and heard the last customer demand four eggplants. “Why don’t you just fix the mistake on your sign?” he asked. The grocer smiled. “What mistake?” he said. “Before I put up that sign, nobody ever bought more than one eggplant.”

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