Young Garabed moved to Gumri and bought a donkey from farmer Vartan for
$50.00.
Farmer Vartan agreed to deliver the Donkey the next day.
The next day Farmer Vartan came by and said, 'Sorry son, I have some
bad news, the donkey died".
Garabed replied: well then just give me my money back.
Farmer Vartan said, 'Can't do that. I went and spent it already."
Garabed said, 'Ok, then, just bring me back my dead donkey."
Farmer Vartan asked, 'what are you going do with a dead donkey?".
Garabed said, 'I'm going to raffle it off."
Farmer Vartan said, 'you can't raffle off a dead donkey!"
Garabed said, 'Sure I can watch me. I just won't tell anybody its dead."
A month later, Farmer Vartan met up with Garabed and asked,
'what happened with that dead donkey?"
Garabed said, 'I raffled it off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars
apiece and made a profit of $948.00.
Farmer Vartan said, 'didn't anyone complain?"
Garabed said, 'Sure did, the guy who won the raffle ticket.
So I gave him back his two dollars!"
Garabed now works for the Armenian Government