Me and my two brothers wanted to give my grandma nice birthday gifts.
My two brothers, both more wealthy than me, bought her a brand-new car and a beautiful cabin on a lakefront property, respectively.
I didn’t have that kind of money, but I remembered my grandma loved the Bible. So I found a parrot that had been trained for 12 years by monks to recite the entire Bible. You just had to say the book, chapter, and verse, and the parrot would recite it perfectly. The bird cost me $100,000, but I figured it would be the ultimate gift.
A week later, we each got a thank-you letter from Grandma.
To my first brother, she wrote: “The car you gave me is nice, but I don’t drive anymore, so I sold it.”
To my second brother: “The cabin is lovely, but I rarely travel, so I sold it.”
And to me she wrote: “Dearest grandson, you were the only one thoughtful enough to give me something I truly needed. That chicken was delicious!”
