A traveling salesman had just got off the train in a small town in the Midwest and was standing outside the drug store looking around the town. There was a little boy sitting on a bench next to him. The salesman struck up a conversation with one of the men playing checkers outside the store and asked if that was his little boy. The man said, “No, he’s just one of the kids from around here. But I tell you what, that kid is so stupid…watch this.” The guy reaches in his pocket and pulls out a nickel and a dime. “Hey, Johnny. Want some money? You can have one of these, but just one.” Johnny jumps up, looks in the man’s hand and takes the nickel and runs in the store. Everybody laughs. In a little while, the kid comes back out with an ice cream cone and sits back down on the bench. The salesman says, “You know, son, he offered to two coins and you took the larger one. But the smaller one is worth twice as much as the larger one.” The kid smiled and said, “Yes I know. But if I take the dime, they stop playing.”