Smart kid

[slick4x4]

A sixteen year-old boy comes home with the nicest 1965 F100
You have ever seen … immaculate condition in every way..
His parents look at the truck and ask, “Where did you get that truck?!”
“I bought it today,” he says.

“With what money?” says his mother.
They knew what a truck like this would cost.
“Well,” he says, “This one cost me just fifteen dollars.”
The father looks at him like he’s crazy.
“Who would sell a truck like that for fifteen dollars?” he says.
“It was the lady up the street,” says the boy.
“I don’t know her name – they just moved in.
She saw me ride past on my bike and asked me if I wanted to buy her
Truck for fifteen dollars.”
“Oh my Goodness!” says the mother.
“Maybe she’s mentally ill or something.
John, you better go see what’s going on.”
So the boy’s father walks up the street to the house where the lady lives
and finds her out in the yard calmly planting petunias.
He introduces himself as the father of the boy to whom she had sold the classic
truck for fifteen dollars and asks to know why she did it.

“Well,” she says, “Two days ago my husband left on a business trip.
Yesterday I got a phone call from his boss and found out that he really ran off to Hawaii
with his secretary and doesn’t intend to come back.”
“Oh, my goodness, I’m so sorry,” the father says.
“But what does that have to do with my son and your truck?”
“Well, this morning he called and told me he was stranded
because he got robbed of his wallet with all his credit cards and cash.
He told me to sell his pride & joy truck
and send him the money. ….So I did.”

[grump]

ouch!