GopherM
Darwin was right
A man walks into a hardware store to buy some paint to brighten up his parrot. When he asks the clerk for his brightest paints and explains his project, the clerk is shocked and tells him that he can’t paint his parrot, because paint is toxic and it’ll probably die.
Undeterred, the man insists, explaining that if the clerk won’t sell him the paint, he’ll just go buy it somewhere else. So, the clerk obliges, and off he goes with his vivid paints.
The next day the same man, looking very sad, returns to the store, this time looking to buy some wood and nails to make a mini coffin for his deceased parrot. The same clerk, unable to resist this “I told you so” moment, pipes up and says, “See, I told you that if you painted your parrot, it’d die!”
The man responds, “Well, we’ll never know now, will we, because in fact, I never actually painted him... but you can tell any future customers for sure that they don’t handle the sanding very well!”
Undeterred, the man insists, explaining that if the clerk won’t sell him the paint, he’ll just go buy it somewhere else. So, the clerk obliges, and off he goes with his vivid paints.
The next day the same man, looking very sad, returns to the store, this time looking to buy some wood and nails to make a mini coffin for his deceased parrot. The same clerk, unable to resist this “I told you so” moment, pipes up and says, “See, I told you that if you painted your parrot, it’d die!”
The man responds, “Well, we’ll never know now, will we, because in fact, I never actually painted him... but you can tell any future customers for sure that they don’t handle the sanding very well!”