A successful businessman flew to Vegas for the weekend to
gamble. He lost the shirt off his back, and had nothing
left but
a quarter and the second half of his round-trip ticket. If he
could just get to the airport he could get himself home. So he
went out to the front of the casino where there was a cab
waiting. He got in and explained his situation to the cabby. He
promised to send the driver money from home, he offered him his
credit card numbers, his driver's license number, his address,
etc., but to no avail. The cabby said, "If you don't have
fifteen dollars, get the hell out of my cab!" So the
businessman
was forced to hitch hike to the airport and was barely in time
to catch his flight.
One year later the businessman, having worked long and hard
to regain his financial success, returned to Vegas, and this
time he won big. Feeling pretty good about himself, he went out
to the front of the casino to get a cab ride back to the
airport. Well who should he see out there, at the very end of a
long line of cabs, but his old buddy who had refused to give him
a ride when he was
down on his luck. The businessman thought for
a moment about how he could make the guy pay for his lack of
charity, and he hit on a plan.
The businessman got in the first cab in the line, "How much
for a ride to the airport," he asked? "Fifteen bucks," came the
reply. "And how much for you to give me sexual favors on the
way?"
"What?! Get the hell out of my cab!"
The businessman got into the back of each cab in the long
line and asked the same questions, with the same
result.
When he got to his old friend at the back of the fifth line,
he got in and asked, "How much for a ride to the airport?" The
cabby replied, "Fifteen bucks." The businessman said, "Okay" and
off they went. As they slowly drove past the long line of cabs,
the business man gave a big smile and thumbs up sign to each
driver.
