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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 a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and a YSL tie leaned out
of the window and asked the shepherd: "If I tell you exactly how many
sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?" |
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The shepherd looks at the yuppie, then at his
peacefully
grazing flock and calmly answers "Sure!" |
The yuppie parks the car, whips out his notebook, 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 60
Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas. Finally he prints out a 150 page
report on his hi-tech miniaturized printer, turns round to the shepherd and
says: "you have exactly 1586 sheep!"
"That is correct, take one of the sheep" says the shepherd.
He watches the young man select a sheep and bundle it in his Cherokee. Then
he says: "If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you
give me my sheep 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?"
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"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. And you don't know ANYTHING about my business
because you took my dog." |
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