A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California, when suddenly a brand-new Porsche advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses, and a YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?”
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, why not?”
The yuppie parks his car and whips out his iPhone, which is connected to a NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra high-resolution photo.
The young man opens the photo in Adobe Photoshop, then exports the photo to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives the data through the phone.
Finally, he prints out a full color, 150 page report and turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”
The young man thinks about it for a second, then says, “Okay, why not?”
“You’re a congressman for the US Government,” Bud answers.
“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie. “But how did you guess that?”
“No guessing required,” answers 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. You don’t know a thing about how working people make a living — or about cows for that matter. This is a herd of sheep.
“Now give me back my dog!”
