A Montana rancher was on his horse, in the middle of his huge spread, when a car approached down the lonely, dusty road. Out of the Mercedes climbs a man with an impeccable Armani suit. The man says, “I have a deal for you. If I tell you exactly how many cattle you have in this pasture, I get to keep one of them.”
The rancher agrees, so the man pulls out his cell phone and attaches it to the modem of his laptop computer. He goes to the NASA website and downloads a real-time satellite photo of the pasture. He prints the photo right there in his car and then runs it through his photo analysis software. Within a few minutes, he informs the rancher “You have exactly 783 cows and calves in this pasture.”
The rancher nods his agreement, and the man grabs an animal and places it into his trunk.
The rancher responds “How about this deal? If I can name your profession, I get that there animal back?” The man agrees.
The rancher says “You are a consultant.” Dumbstruck, the man answers “How did you know?!?!”
“Well”, the rancher says, “you offered to do something even when I didn’t ask, you told me an answer I already knew, and you don’t know anything about my business.”
“ What do you mean I don’t know anything about your business?”
The rancher replies, “Why don’t you let my dog out of your trunk?”
