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Nickel

There's a little fellow named Junior who hangs out at Alley's Grocery Store. I don't know what Junior's problem is, but the boys like to tease him. They say he is two bricks shy of a load, or two pickles shy of a barrel.

To prove it, sometimes they offer Junior his choice between a nickel and a dime. He always takes the nickel, they say, because it's bigger. One day I was there when they did that, and after Junior grabbed the nickel, Lamar and I got him off to one side and said, "Junior, those boys are making fun of you. They think you don't know the dime is worth more than the nickel. Are you grabbing the nickel because it's bigger, or what?"

He looked at Lamar and me and said, "Well, if I took the dime, they'd quit doing it!"

That's so smart!