Bud The Cowboy
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his heard in a remote pasture in Montana, when suddenly a new BMW sedan pulls up in a cloud of dust. The driver in a nice suit, shoes and sunglasses leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you how many cows and calfs you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?
Bud looks at the man, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not."
The driver pulls out his Android, connects to a NASA page, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get a fix on his location, which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in and takes an ultra-high-resolution photo. He then exports the photo in Adobe photoshop to an image processing facility. Within seconds he receives an email on his Android that the image has been processed and the data stored. He prints out a full color report on his miniatured HP printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
Bud watches the man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The man thinks for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Congressman for the government", says Bud.
"Wow! That's correct," says the man, "but how did you know that?"
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you, you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are and you don't know a thing about how working people earn a living-or about cows for that matter. This is a herd of sheep."
"Now give me back my dog."