The Geek and Pablo Picasso

 

There's a story of a business whose internet crashed and in a panic, the owner reached out to the nearest computer expert to solve his problem. Not long after, the computer geek showed up with his clip board, wearing a white shirt and thin necktie and he was shown by the owner where the servers were located.

The repairman leaned over and looked at some flashing red and green lights and exclaimed, "aha".

He placed his clip board down, reached behind the server and gave it two gentle taps and just as he did, everything was back online.

"Thank you so much!", said the owner. "You've saved my business and I don't know what I would have done without you! How much do I owe you?"

At that, the repairman pulled out his invoice booklet, wrote down a number and handed it over to the owner.

With horror the owner exclaimed "A thousand dollars? Why, that ridiculous! You were only here for 5 minutes and all you did was tap the server! I want an itemized invoice!"

So the meek repair man wrote another invoice only this time it read, 

Tapping the server.......$1

Knowing where to tap......$999

There's another story of a lady who was drinking a cup of coffee at an outdoor café in Spain who was seated directly behind the famous painter, Pablo Picasso. 

Pablo was sketching on a paper napkin and as he was working his magic with his pencil the lady was watching from behind. 

Eventually, having finished his coffee, he rose to leave with his sketch when the lady stopped him and said, "Excuse me, Mr. Picasso. I was watching you while you were drawing and I was truly impressed. May I please buy it from you?"

"Certainly" he answered, "It's $500 dollars."

The lady was shocked and said "That's a lot of money for a pencil drawing you did on a paper napkin and it only took you 5 minutes to draw."

"No ma'am your wrong" said Pablo, "it took me 50 years." then he put it in his pocket and walked away.