A man was telling his friend how intelligent his new dog was. “This dog is incredible!” he said. “He understands everything. He even knows how to fetch the newspaper!”
His friend looked astonished. “Newspaper? Really?”
“Yes!” the man insisted. “Every morning he goes to the door, picks up the newspaper, and brings it to me.”
His friend smiled. “Wow, that’s truly impressive. What does he do when the weather is bad? When it rains?”
The man shrugged. “He still brings it. It’s just a bit wet.”
His friend thought. “What if there’s no newspaper? Say it’s a holiday, and no newspaper was printed.”
The man smiled proudly. “That’s where his real intelligence shines! If there’s no newspaper, then he brings me… my slippers!”
His friend frowned. “His slippers? Why?”
The man burst out laughing. “Because if there’s no newspaper, it means I should go back to sleep! So he brings my slippers as if to say, ‘Come on, go back to bed!'”