- Location
- mesquite, texas
Modern Day Shepherd
A shepherd was tending his flock in a remote pasture
when suddenly a brand-new Jeep Cherokee appeared out of
a dust cloud, advanced toward him and stopped.
The driver, a 24-year-old young man wearing a Brioni
suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and a Yves Saint
Laurent tie, leaned out of the window and asked the
shepherd, "If I can tell you exactly how many sheep you
have in your flock, will you give me one?"
The shepherd looked at the young guy, then at his
peacefully grazing flock, and calmly answered, "Sure."
The young man parked his car, whipped out his notebook
computer, connected it to a cell phone, surfed to a NASA
page on the Internet where he called up a GPS satellite
navigation system, scanned the area, then opened up a
database and some Excel spreadsheets with complex
formulas. He finally printed out a 50-page report on his
hi-tech miniaturized printer, turned around to our
shepherd and said, "You have here exactly 1,586 sheep!"
"Amazing! That's correct! Like I agreed, you can take
one of my sheep," said the shepherd. The shepherd
watched the man make a selection and bundle it into his
Cherokee. When he was finished the sheepherder said,
"If I can tell you exactly what your political
persuasion is, where you're from and who you work for,
will you give me my sheep back?"
"Okay, why not," answered the young man.
"You're a Democrat from Palm Beach and you're working
for Jesse Jackson," said the shepherd.
"Wow! That's correct," said the young man. "How did you
ever guess that?"
"Easy," answered the shepherd. "Nobody called you, but
you showed up here anyway. You want to be paid for
providing a solution to a question I already knew the
answer to. And, you don't know squat about what you're
doing because you just took my dog."
A shepherd was tending his flock in a remote pasture
when suddenly a brand-new Jeep Cherokee appeared out of
a dust cloud, advanced toward him and stopped.
The driver, a 24-year-old young man wearing a Brioni
suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and a Yves Saint
Laurent tie, leaned out of the window and asked the
shepherd, "If I can tell you exactly how many sheep you
have in your flock, will you give me one?"
The shepherd looked at the young guy, then at his
peacefully grazing flock, and calmly answered, "Sure."
The young man parked his car, whipped out his notebook
computer, connected it to a cell phone, surfed to a NASA
page on the Internet where he called up a GPS satellite
navigation system, scanned the area, then opened up a
database and some Excel spreadsheets with complex
formulas. He finally printed out a 50-page report on his
hi-tech miniaturized printer, turned around to our
shepherd and said, "You have here exactly 1,586 sheep!"
"Amazing! That's correct! Like I agreed, you can take
one of my sheep," said the shepherd. The shepherd
watched the man make a selection and bundle it into his
Cherokee. When he was finished the sheepherder said,
"If I can tell you exactly what your political
persuasion is, where you're from and who you work for,
will you give me my sheep back?"
"Okay, why not," answered the young man.
"You're a Democrat from Palm Beach and you're working
for Jesse Jackson," said the shepherd.
"Wow! That's correct," said the young man. "How did you
ever guess that?"
"Easy," answered the shepherd. "Nobody called you, but
you showed up here anyway. You want to be paid for
providing a solution to a question I already knew the
answer to. And, you don't know squat about what you're
doing because you just took my dog."
