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Lawyer's Dog
A lawyer's dog, running about unleashed, beelines for a butcher
shop and steals a roast. Butcher goes to lawyer's office and
asks,
"If a dog running unleashed steals a piece of meat from
my store, do I have a right to demand payment for the meat from
the dog's owner?"
The lawyer answers, "Absolutely."
"Then you
owe me $8.50. Your dog was loose and stole a roast from me today."
The lawyer, without a word, writes the butcher a check for
$8.50 [attorneys don't carry cash -- it's too plebeian -- and
the butcher hadn't brought the shop's credit card imprinted to
the lawyer's office]. Several periods of time later -- it
could be the next day but that would be unrealistic -- the
butcher opens the mail and finds an envelope from the lawyer:
$20 due for a consultation.
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