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A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son
waiting for him at the door.
"daddy, may I ask you a question?"
"yeah sure, what is it?" replied the man.
"daddy, how much do you make an hour?"
"that's none of your business. why do you ask such a thing?" the man said
angrily.
"I just want to know. please tell me, how much do you make an hour?"pleaded the
little boy.
"if you must know, I make $20 an hour."
"oh," the little boy replied, with his head down. looking up, he said,
"daddy, may I please borrow $10?"
the father was furious, "if the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some
money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your
room and go to bed. think about why you are being so selfish. I work long hard
hours everyday and don't have time for such this childish
behavior."
The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.
The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's
questions.
how dare he ask such questions only to get some money?
After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think he
may have been a little hard on his son.
maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $10 and he really didn't ask
for money very often.
the man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.
"are you asleep, son?" he asked.
"no daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.
"I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier," said the man,
"it's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. here's the $10 you
asked for."
The little boy sat straight up, smiling. "oh, thank you daddy!"
he yelled. then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up
bills.
The man, seeing that the boy already had money, started to get angry again.
the little boy slowly counted out his money, then looked up at his father.
"why do you want more money if you already have some?" the father grumbled.
"because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy replied.
"daddy, I have $20 now. can I buy an hour of your time? please come home early
tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you"~~~~~~~~~
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一位爸爸下班回到家很晚了,很累並有點煩發現他五歲的兒子靠在門旁等他.
>"爸,我可以問你一個問題嗎?"他問著
>"當然可以,什麼問題?" 父親回答
>"爸,你一小時可以賺多少錢?"
>"這與你無關,你為什麼問這個問題?" 父親生氣的說著
>"我只是想要知道, 請告訴我, 你一小時賺多少錢?"
小孩哀求著
>"假如你一定要知道的話, 我一小時賺20塊美金"
>"喔" 小孩低著頭這樣回答著.
>小孩說 "爹地, 可以借我10塊美金嗎
>父親發怒了. "如果你問這問題只是要借錢去買毫無意義的玩具或東西的話,
給我回到
>你的房間並上床. 好好想想為什麼你會那麼自私.
我每天長時間辛苦工作著,沒時間和
>你玩小孩子的遊戲."
>小孩安靜地回自己房並關上門.
>這位父親坐下來還對小孩的問題生氣
他怎麼敢只為了錢而問這種問題?
>約一小時後, 他平靜下來了, 開始想著
>他可能對孩子太兇了
>或許他應該用那10塊錢美金買小孩真正想要的,況且他並沒有常常要錢
>父親走小孩的房門並打開門 "你睡了嗎孩子?"
>"爸,還沒,我還醒著." 小孩回答著
>"我想過了,我剛剛可能對你太兇了"父親說著
>"我將今天的悶氣都爆發出來了. 這是你要的10塊錢美金"
>小孩笑著坐直了起來, "爹地,謝謝你" 小孩叫著,
接著小孩從枕頭下拿出一些被弄皺
了
>的鈔票, 這父親看到小孩已經有錢了,快要再次發脾氣,
這小孩慢慢地算著錢,接著看
>著他的爸爸
>"為什麼你已經有錢了還要要更多?" 父親生氣的說著
>"因為我之前不夠,但我現在足夠了"小孩回答
>"爸,我現在有20塊錢了. 我可以向你買一個小時的時間嗎?
明天請早一點回家我想和
>你一起吃晚餐."
>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*******~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> ~~~~~~
>>> : share this story with someone you like....but even better, share $20
>>> : worth of time with someone you love.
>>> : 將這個故事與你所喜歡的人分享,但更重要的,與
>>> 你所愛的人分享這價值20塊美金的時間
>>> : its just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life.
>>> : 這只是提醒辛苦工作的各位
>>> : we should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent
>>> : some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our
>>hearts.
>>> : 我們不應該不花一點時間來陪那些在乎我們,關心我們的人而讓時間從手指間溜
>>> 走.
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