There were two cans of soup -- one beef & potato, one chicken barley.
"Which one do you want?" I said to Chris.
"Whichever one you don't want," he replied.
"No," I said, "have the one you want."
"You have the one you want," he said.
"Pick the soup you want!" I exclaimed. "Pick a soup!"
Chris picked the chicken barley, so I had the beef & potato.
As he was finishing his bowl he said, "You wanted the beef & potato right?"
"No," I said. "Actually I wanted the chicken barley."
"But I thought you liked beef & potato," he said. "I wanted the beef & potato but I didn't take it because I thought you wanted it."
"Well in trying to please the other," I declared, "it seems we pleased no one."
The moral of the story? Take what you want and screw the other guy.
2 comments:
AMEN to that! It is true, though, how often that happens. In trying to please someone else we put aside what we want. As noble as that sounds it backfires more often than not.
did you screw the other guy?
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