Grandpa wonders how much 6-year-old Tommy knows about money. Just for fun, he pulls two bills from his wallet – a ten and a twenty – and asks Tommy which one he’d rather have. Tommy grins and takes the ten dollar bill. 

“Thanks, Grandpa!”

Grandpa thinks it’s kinda funny, so he does it again. Again Tommy chooses the ten-dollar bill.

Grandpa calls over Uncle Joe and says, “Watch this.” He again offers Tommy a ten and a twenty, and again Tommy chooses the ten.

Both men chuckle, and then call over Tommy’s dad. Grandpa again offers a ten and a twenty, and Tommy gleefully takes the ten.

Dad takes Tommy aside. “Son, don’t you know twenty is more than ten?”

“Sure,” says Tommy. “But if I took the twenty, Grandpa wouldn’t keep playing the game. Now I have forty dollars.”

One Liner

A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time.