Three successful brothers compared their wealth by the presents they had recently sent their old mother for her 75th birthday. Shlomo, the oldest, said: "I built a big mansion for our mother." Moishe, the second, said: "I sent her a Mercedes with a driver." Ira, the youngest, said: "You remember how our mama used to enjoy reading the bible? Now she can?t see very well. So I sent her a remarkable parrot that recites the whole bible... Mama just has to name the chapter and verse." A few days later a letter arrived from their mother. "Shlomo," she wrote, "the mansion you built is so huge. I live only in one room, but I have to clean the whole house." "Moishe," she wrote, "I am too old to travel. I stay most of the time at home so I rarely use the Mercedes. And that driver - he?s a pain in the tuchas." "But Ira," she wrote, "the chicken was delicious!"
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