At the Micromanaging Quarterfinals

Tourist dad: So, if you had two hundred dollars and you could spend it in the city any way you wanted to, what would you--
Small boy: --I'd buy roasted peanuts.
Tourist dad: What? No. Not peanuts.
Small boy: Why not? If it's my money, I'm gonna spend it on peanuts!
Tourist dad, annoyed: Fine, you can get the damn peanuts. What would you do with the rest of the money?
Small boy, thinking: Well, that would leave me with... about a hundred and ninety dollars?
Tourist dad: No way. You are not buying 10-dollar roasted peanuts.

--Broadway

Overheard by: amused pedestrian



Posted 2008-02-01

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