[Title 39, Section 3009]
A package arrived in the mail. It was three dimensional, and, as such, elicited a fair amount of excitement. This excitement was heightened by the fact that the boy was, not surprisingly, expecting a package in the mail.
The expected package was supposed to contain some things that had been ordered from a company that was located in another town. The order had been placed in person. The boy looked at the package and smiled.
Later, it was determined that the package resting quietly in the mailbox that morning was completely unexpected. The first indication of this was that the stalks had grown a few hundred feet tall in less than a week. The second was that the expected package arrived a few days later. The third was an unexpected bill for several hundred dollars.
"Oh, dear," said the boy's mother, "what ever shall we do?"
"I think," said the boy, "that I will plant these beans as well. I'm certainly not going to climb up those giant stalks every day just to pick beans."
Thursday, June 26th, 2003
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