These Three Sons Compete Over Who Got Their Mother The Best Present
Three sons left home, went out on their own
and prospered.
Years later, they get back together to discuss the gifts they were able to give their elderly
mother for her 90th Birthday.
The first said, “I built a big house for our mother.”
The second said, “I sent her a Mercedes with a driver.”
The third smiled and said, “I’ve got you both beat. You know how Mom enjoys the Bible, and you
know she can’t see very well. I sent her a brown parrot that can recite the entire Bible. It took 20
monks in a monastery 12 years to teach him. I had to pledge to contribute $100,000.00 a year
for 10 years, but it was worth it. Mom just has to name the chapter and verse, and the parrot will
recite it.”
Soon thereafter, Mom sent out her letters of thanks:
“Milton,” she wrote the first son, “The house you built is so huge. I live in only one room, but I
have to clean the whole house.”
“Marvin,” she wrote to another, “I am too old to travel. I stay home all the time, so I never use the
Mercedes. And the driver is so rude!”
“Dearest Melvin,” she wrote to her third son, “You were the only son to have the good sense to
know what your mother likes. That chicken was delicious.”
