“Good morning sir,” Morty Goldstein says as he greets the salesman. “I came to this store because I don’t like to bargain.”
“Well, you’ve come to the right place,” says the salesman. “We’re strictly a one price outfit.”
“Excellent. I like that blue suit over there. How much is it?”
“Like I said, I don’t fool around with bargaining. So I’m not going to ask $250 for this suit, or even $235. I’m going to give you my best price: $220.”
“Well, you’re my kind of businessman,” Morty says. “That’s why I’m here. I won’t fool around and offer you $160 for that suit, or even $175. I’ll give you $200 for it.
“You can have it for $210.”
“I’ll take it.”
Sarah, a Sales Associate at Wal-Mart in Brooklyn, notices an older looking man in the card section. When she walks by an hour later and sees him still there she walks over to see if she can help.
“Hell sir, my name is Sarah,” she said.
“Hello Sarah, I’m Morty Finkelbaum,” replied the man.
“Is there anything I can help you with Mr. Finkelbaum?”
“Well I don’t know, I’m having a problem. I can’t find anything that Mrs. Finkelbaum would believe!”
At the conclusion of the Shabbat services, the congregants of Beth Israel synagogue filed out toward of the sanctuary to the kiddush. As one of them left, he shook the rabbi’s hand, thanked him for the sermon and said, “Thanks for the message, Rabbi. You must be smarter than Einstein.” Beaming with pride, the Rabbi said, “Why, thank you!”
As the week went by, the rabbi began to think about the man’s compliment. The more he thought, the more he became baffled as to why anyone would deem him smarter than Einstein. So he decided to ask the man the following Shabbat.
The next Saturday he asked his congregant if he remembered the previous week’s comment about his speech. The congregant replied that he did. The rabbi asked: “Exactly what did you mean that I must be smarter than Einstein?”
The man replied, “Well, Rabbi, they say that Einstein was so smart that only ten people in the entire world could understand him. But Rabbi, not even one person can understand you.”