A Shepherd was herding his flocks in a remote pasture when suddenly a Brand new Jeep Cherokee advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in an Armani suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and a YSL tie leaned out of the window and asked the shepherd:
"If I can tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one of them?"
The shepherd looks at the yuppie, then at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers "Sure! Why not?"
The yuppie parks the car, whips out his notebook, connects it to a cell phone, surfs to a NASA page on the Internet where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system, scans the area, opens up a database and some 60 Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas.
Finally he prints out a 150-page report on his hi-tech miniaturized printer, turns round to the Shepherd and says: "you have here exactly 1586 sheep!"
"This is correct. As agreed, you can take one of the sheep,” says the Shepherd.
He watches the young man make a selection and bundle the animal into his Jeep Cherokee.
Then the Shepherd says: "If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me my sheep back?"
"Okay, sure. Why not?" answers the grinning young man.
"Mister, You are a consultant" says the Shepherd."
"This is correct,” says the astonished yuppie, "But how did you guess that?"
"Oh that's easy" answers the Shepherd.
"You turn up here, although nobody called you. You want to be paid for the answer to a question I already knew the solution to ..... and you know nothing about my business because you took my dog."