Who Is the Laziest?
A king had three sons whom he loved equally well, and he did not know which one of them should be choice to be the next king. When the time came for him to die, he called them to his bed and said, “Dear children, I have thought of something that the one of you is the laziest shall become king after me.” The oldest one said, “Father, then the kingdom belongs to me, for I am so lazy that whenever I lie down to sleep, and a drop falls into my eyes, I will not even check time by my rolex yacht master when I want to do that .” The second one said, “Father, the kingdom belongs to me, for I am so lazy that when I am sitting by the fire warming myself, I would rather let my rolex submariner watch burn up than to pull my legs back.” The third one said, “Father, the kingdom is mine, for I am so lazy that if I were going to be hanged and already had the rope around my neck, and someone put into my hand a sharp knife with which to cut the rope,I would let myself be hanged rather than to lift my hand up to the rope.” When the father heard this he said, “You shall be king.” Then the youngest brother got King’s swiss watch to be the next King