ALTERNATIVE

"Daddy, what does alternative mean?" a litle boy asked his father.

The man sat his son down and began to explain: "Imagine you're a young man that wants to start a small business. One day you decided to buy a hen.

Then hen starts to lay eggs.

In time some chicks hatch and you now have lot of chickens.

You're rich, you own a chicken farm, cars, equipment, horses, a very nice house."

"But Daddy I want to know what alternative means."

"Yes, son. That's what I'm trying to explain. So you're a rich man now, but one day a huge flood washes your farm away.

You lose everything and all of your chickens drown because the stupid birds can't swim."

"What about alternative, Daddy?"

"The alternative, my son, are ducks."