Sheepish

A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand new BMW came towards him out of a dust cloud. The driver, a young man in an expensive suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out thewindow and asked the shepherd,”If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one of them?” The shepherd looked at the man, then looked at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answered, “Certainly.” The yuppie parked his car, whipped out his IPhone, surfed to a NASA page on the Internet where he called up a GPS satellite navigation system,scanned the area, and then opened up a database and an Excel spreadsheet with complex formulas. He sent an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, received a response. Finally, he printed out a 150 page report on his hi-tech, miniature printer, turned to the shepherd and said, “You have exactly 1,586 sheep.”
“That is correct, take one of the sheep.” said the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and bundle it into his car.

Then the shepherd says: “If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my sheep ?” “OK, why not.” Answered the young man. “Clearly, you are a consultant” said the shepherd. “That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?” “No guessing required,” answers the shepherd. “You turned up here,although nobody called you. You want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked, and you know absolutely nothing about my business.

Now give me my dog back.”