The High Cost of Living briefcase

briefcase student bag laptop bag There was once a person who was very stingy. One day he tried to cross a river by himself, but he slipped because the current was extremely strong. And then the current swepthim away, down the middle of the river. So he shouted, "Can anyone help me? I'll give you money!" There was a person on a boatnearby and he said, "OK. For fifty dollars I'll help you." But the man in the river replied, "Fifty dollars! That's too expensive. I'll giveyou twenty." So the person on the boat said,"No, no, that's too cheap." By now the manin the river was trying very hard to breatheand was even swallowing some of the riverwater. So he said, "OK, OK, thirty dollars!" But the person on the boat said, "No, no.Forty dollars is my last price." And the manin the water said,"I - I - I'd rather die!"