The high cost of living
There was once a person who was very stingy.
One day he tried to cross a river by himself,but he slipped because the current was extremely strong.And then the current swept him away ,down the middle of the river.So he shouted ,“can anyone help me? I’ll give you money!”
There was a person on a boat nearby and he said,“OK. For fifty dollars I”ll help you.”
But the man in the river replied,“Fifty dollars？That’ too expensive.I’ll give you twenty.”
So the person on the boat said，“No，no，that’s too cheap.”
By now the man in the river was trying very hard to breathe and was even swallowing some of the river water.So he said,“OK,OK,thirty dollars!”
But the person on the boat said,“No,no.Forty dollars is my last price.”
And the man in the water said,“I-I-I’d rather die.”
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