Being Polite
There are two polite people having dinner together.
On the table there is a dish with one big piece of
fish and one small piece of fish.
They politely say to each other: "You may choose first."
"No, you may choose first."
And this goes on for a while.
Then the first person says: "OK, I'll take first."
And he takes the BIG piece of fish.
The second person:
"Why did you take the big piece? That's not polite!"
The first person says: "Which piece would *you* have taken?"
The second person replies:
"Why, I would have taken the SMALL piece, of course."
The first person says: "Well, that's what you have now!"