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| Saving money: the American & the South-American
posted on: 5/1/2005 3:08:17 AM
A thrifty American businessman is on a business visit in a small town in a poor Latin American country. Sitting in the lounge of the hotel where he is staying, he is disgusted to see a fat man in a spic suit standing in the doorway of the lounge smoking cigar after cigar, and placing orders for expensive dishes, asking that they be served in the hotel restaurant as soon as he finished the cigars. Every day, when the businessman sits in the lounge, he notices the portly man with the cigars, wearing a different suit and ordering new dishes every day. Finally, after a week has passed thus, the businessman can contain himself no longer, and he goes up to the stout cigar smoker and tells him, "Excuse me for prying into your affairs, but I can't help observing that you are blowing up your life savings on those cigars, expensive suits, and expensive dishes. Why, if you had saved all that money by avoiding those cigars, suits and dishes, you'd have been able to own this hotel today!" The cigar smoker asks the businessman, "Respected Sir, let me ask you a humble question. Do you smoke, buy expensive suits, or eat or live luxuriously in any way? Or have any vices at all?" The thrifty American firmly declares, "Of course not!" Then the cigar smoker asks, "And, Noble Sir, do you, by any chance, own this hotel?" The American exclaims, "No. But your logic is..." The cigar smoker interrupts, "Esteemed Sir, pray answer one last question. Do you know who owns this hotel?" The American says, "No, but..." The cigar smoker says, "Well, Sir, I own it."
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