Wise Choices
Story★★★A farmer hired a man to dig postholes. The fellow finished the job in no time. The next day he told the man to clear stumps. That, too, was done in record time. The third day, the farmer decided to reward such hard work by giving the man an easy job—sorting out bad potatoes. After about three hours the man quit. “The job was easy enough,” he said, “but the decisions got me down.”
The point
A hardworking farmhand who breezed through physical labor quit sorting potatoes because the endless small decisions wore him down more than any hard task.
Audience
Adults
Tone
Humorous · Insightful
To tell aloud
under a minute · 74 words