A brand-new teacher noticed that the kids kept teasing one boy, calling him “Mikey the Moron.”
At recess, the teacher asked why.
One of the boys said, “Because he is a moron! Watch this…”
He held out a big 50-cent coin and a smaller one-dollar coin.
Mikey looked at both and—just like the kids expected—took the 50-cent piece.
Later, the teacher pulled Mikey aside and gently said,
“Mikey, the 50-cent piece might be bigger, but the one-dollar coin is worth more.
You understand that, right?”
Mikey sighed and said,
“Of course I understand that, sir.”
“Then why do you always choose the 50-cent piece?”
Mikey grinned and replied:
“Because the day I take the dollar…
Is the day they stop giving me money!”