To Good to be True
A out of work fix-it man, was getting pretty desperate for money. He decided to go to the nicer, richer neighborhoods around town and look for odd jobs as a handy man.
The first house he came to, a man answered the door and told the man,"Yeah, I have a job for you. "How would you like to paint the porch?"
"Sure that sounds great!"
"Well, how much do you want me to pay you?" asked the man.
"Is fifty bucks all right?" asked our unemployed handyman.
"Yeah, great. "You'll find the paint and ladders you'll need in the garage."
The man went back into his house to his wife who had been listening. "Fifty bucks! Does he know the porch goes all the way around the house?"asked the wife.
"Well, he must, he was standing right on it!" her husband replied.
About 45 minutes later, our handyman knocked on the door. "I'm all finished," he told the surprised homeowner.
The man was amazed. "You painted the whole porch?" "Yeah," he replied, "I even had some paint left, so I put on two coats!"
The man reached into his wallet to pay the man. "Oh, and by the way," he said, "That's not a Porch, it's a Ferrari."
Originally published November 14, 2002.
