Four guys are sitting in a bar and a older guy walks in and says who wants to make $2000 dollars in one day? All 4 guys say they do and ask what do they have to do for it.
The old man says "Well, I have $8000 dollars in my pocket and if you do what I say tomorrow until the end of the day you get $2000, or I'll give you each $100 dollars now and find some other guys."
The four guys say sure we'll see you tomorrow because they are greedy.
Tomorrow they show up and the old man has four shovels and four treasure chests. He takes them to a big field off the main street near the bar. The old man says "Ok now, whoever digs a hole big enough where they can bury a treasure chest gets $4000 dollars when I come back at the end of the day.
The four look around and say why $4000?
The old man says "Oh I changed it. Cya later in the day, you have all day and I won't be back until 5:00 at night and if you need more time I'll wait until midnight."
All four start digging with their shovels but the dirt is as hard as rock. One guy says "Man I should have taken the $100 at the bar and left" and he leaves.
After 2 hours another one utters this is useless and leaves.
Shortly thereafter the third one looked at the treasure chests and opened them up. Inside each treasure chest was $2000 dollars. The two guys remaining are startled and the third one wonders about running off with the money. He says "Man, the other guys left theirs and this is impossible to dig in we've only got enough dug to put my foot in. It's almost 4:00 the old man will just have to come back and not find anything left here but four empty chests and four shovels. Put that shovel down let's split the money and let's get out of here."
The other one said "Well you can take the money from three of the chests but leave one for me I'm going to keep digging."
The third one said "Shoot, whatever floats your boat I'm out of here" he took the money from the three chests and left.
5:00PM rolls around and the old man comes back but doesn't look surprised at what has happened. He watches as the last guy is trying to dig but doesn't make much progress his hole is now only the size of a basketball.
At 5:15PM the sky turns darker and it starts to rain. As the man is digging he finds the ground is softer and takes no time at all to fit his treasure chest in the hole he dug.
He says "I guess I will be getting the money in the chest and be on my way."
The old man smiles and says "You might want to take the shovels with you as well."
The man wonders why he would want some dusty old shovels but then looks at the shovels sitting on the ground, except for a little mud each one is solid gold. Each was handpainted to look like a normal shovel but the rain washed the paint away.
The old man said "I've done this a couple times, and each time at least one doesn't try, another doesn't try enough.
One tries to take the easy way out and another is losing hope but for some reason stays sometimes. I've only had to had to order new gold shovels twice and the money in the chests is fake. Basically monopoly money bought from a party store. I run a little game at the nearby casino where rich people bet against each other on who will give up first, the treasure chests each have a built in camera. They are told the rules at the beginning and we play the game whenever we know it will rain around 5:00PM.
If you'll excuse me, I'll be on my way to collect from the betting suckers ha ha ha."