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A woman is shopping in an antique parlor when she sees a cat drinking out of a porcelain dish. Looking closer, she realizes the dish is of an old and quite valuable manufacture. Thinking she might get a real bargain if she can just be subtle enough, she asks the elderly shopkeeper if she could buy the cat.
“Certainly, Ma’am,” the proprietor replies. “For twenty dollars, the cat is all yours.”
As the woman casually takes the twenty out of her purse and hands it over, she says, “I notice my new cat seems to like that old saucer. How about I give you an extra dollar for it?”
“Oh, no, Ma’am!” the old lady replied. “That’s a lucky saucer; I’ve sold six cats off it so far.”
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