How's business (#3)
Some years ago a man owned a hot dog stand. It was located on the way out of Los Angeles going towards Ventura. He put four sons through college with the money he made from this hotdog stand. One of his sons graduated from Harvard business school and came to visit his Dad.

When the stand closed the man sat down and started to make out his order for the next week. His son asked him why he was ordering so many hot dogs and buns. The father replied that he was ordering them because that's how many he expected to sell next week. The son said that he had better not ordered that many because there was a recession and he would lose the money he put into that much product.

The father thought that his son was a Harvard business school graduate so he must know what he was talking about. He cut his order by a third. It turned out his son was right.

The next week is business fell.

The next week he was ordering and the son told him the same thing. The son mentioned the recession again and told him that his dad was ordering too much again. The father cut down on his order.

Sure enough, business fell again the next week. The same thing happened one or two more times and soon the father was out of business.

Business is never good or bad out there. Business is good or bad between your years.
Bob