A man gets a job at a fancy restaurant. Let’s call him Fred. After years of honing his server skills at different restaurants, Fred finally manages to land a job at his dream workplace in Athens,
Greece. He sits down and has a talk with the owner who tells him all about the history of the restaurant and all the policies he needs to be aware of as a new member of the team. The one
he is most fascinated by is the no small-talk with customers rule, as Fred loved to get to know his clientel + it often ensured a better tip. The owner said:
“Our one and only priority is that our guests are served and happy. Do not ask them about their private lives, do not ask them about their day, don’t even ask them how they feel.”
One of the other workers explained the policy to Fred – some guests, which are coincidentally rich, often come with different women to the restaurant. Fred quickly connects the dots and
decides to give it his best. It’s a European restaurant so he’s already paid a decent wage, better than all his former jobs, no need to worry about tips.
One day, a man comes in with a weirdly humanoid chicken. Why is it humanoid? Well it’s a normal chicken, but has long human legs, almost like a female model. Fred serves the man the
whole night, when the receipt arrives, the man reaches into his pocket, pulls out a few bills and coins and puts them on the table. As he leaves, Fred goes and takes the money and to his
amazement, it’s the exact amount. Coincidence? And why the random chicken?
The man continues coming into the restaurant every couple of days and Fred is always the one who serves him. The trend continues, every time the man is about to pay, he sticks his hand
into his pocket and always manages to take out the exact amount of money needed to pay the receipt. The chicken is always by his side as well.
Fred can’t take it anymore, he needs to ask the guy about the matter. No company policy will get in his way, it’s just too specific not to ask the man about. So the next time the guy comes
in, Fred does all the usual, and finally when the man is about to pay, Fred stops him:
“I have to apologise, I am completely aware of the company policy, but I just need to ask you two questions otherwise I think I’ll go crazy”.
The man looks at Fred and recognises him:
“Oh yes, I know you. Always a pleasure when you’re my server. Feel free to ask me anything you want.”
Fred is excited, he didn’t think it would go so smoothly. He tries to look as cool, calm, collected as possible and asks him the first question:
“How come you always have the exact amount of money that’s written on the receipt? You never count the money, you just reach into your pocket and bam, perfect amount.”
The man smiles and tells Fred a little story:
“You wouldn’t believe how lucky a man I am. One day I really wanted to buy a fish and an aquarium. It’s been my life long dream after watching many YouTube videos of beautiful
aquariums. Wouldn’t you know it, the first fish I buy happens to be a magical fish. It told me I’ve saved it and therefore it would grant me two wishes. I’m well aware if I wished for a million,
or 10 million dollars, how ever much money I’d eventually spend it all. So, I just asked the fish to always give me the amount of money I need for any situation in my pocket.”
“Genius!” Fred exclaimed. He would never have thought of that. ” You’re absolutely right in doing in that, I gamble from time to time and would have probably lost all my money really
fast, this is is an amazing workaround. What about the random mutated chicken though?”
“Well, here’s where I screwed up”, says the man. “My second wish was a chick with nice legs.”