"Two Nickels and Five Pennies"
A boy entered a coffee shop and sat at
a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him. "How much is an
ice cream sundae?" "Fifty cents," replied the waitress.
The little boy pulled his hand out of
his pocket and studied a number of coins in it. "How much is a dish of
plain ice cream?" he inquired. Some people were now waiting for a table,
and the waitress was impatient.
"Thirty five cents," she
said angrily.
The little boy again counted the
coins. "I'll have the plain ice cream."
The waitress brought the ice cream and
walked away. The boy finished, paid the cashier, and departed. When the
waitress came back, she swallowed hard at what she saw. There, placed neatly
beside the empty dish, were two nickels and five pennies her tip.
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