The short story of the shepherd and the stock exchange fuzzy
... guarded in a lonely area his sheep. Suddenly a brand-new Cherokee jeep emerged and kept direct beside it in a large dust cloud.
The driver of the jeep, a young man in Brioni suit, Cerutti shoes, Ray Ban sun glasses and a YSL tie steps out and asks him: "if I guess, how many sheep you have here, I get then one?"
The shepherd looks at the young man, then his peacefully grazing sheep, and says then calmly: "o.k."
The young man parks the jeep, connects his Notebook with the mobile phone, goes in the InterNet on a NASA side, scans the area with the help of its government inspection department satellite navigation system, opens one data base and 60 Excel tables with an enormous amount of formulas. Finally it prints a 150-side report on his mini printer, turns to the shepherd and says: "you have accurately 1.586 sheeps."
The shepherd says: "that is correct, select yourself a sheep."
The young man takes an animal and loads it into the jeep. The shepherd watches it and says: "if I guess your occupation, then you return to me the sheep?"
The young man answers: "clear, why not. The shepherd says: "you are a share analyst." "that is correct, from where you know that?", the young man wants to know.
"very simply", the shepherd says, "first of all you come here, although nobody called you. Secondly you want a sheep as payment for it that you say to me somewhat, what I anyway already know, and thirdly have you no notion of what I make. Because you selected yourself my dog ."
"spent" by Richard Ebert.
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