Humor

A stock investor falls asleep in a small, unnoticed part of a cave in Central Park, and doesn’t wake up for twenty years. When he finally does wake, he sees the previous day’s newspaper, sees the date and freaks out. He runs to a pay phone and somehow tricks it into putting him through to his stockbroker across town.

The stockbroker is amazed, thinking the guy must have emigrated to Mars and forgotten to tell him. The frantic investor asks how much his IBM stock is now worth. “It’s currently trading at $200,000 a share,” says the broker. The guy freaks out. “And my General Electric?” The broker checks. Around $175,000 a share. OMG the guy realizes, I’m now worth half a billion dollars. Then the operator comes on. “Please deposit $80,000 for the next three minutes.”