The ‘businessman’ sounds like a consultant:
One day a shepherd attending his herd saw a BMW emerge from a dust cloud and head towards him. On pulling up, the shepherd could see the driver was a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie.
The driver leans out the window and says to the shepherd: ‘If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your herd, you’ll give me one’.
Amused, the shepherd looks at the yuppie and calmly says, ‘Sure’.
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his MacBook Pro, connects his iPhone as a hotspot, brings up a NASA satellite tracking page to get his exact coordinates before launching a 4K resolution scan of the area.
The young man exports the photo to an image processing lab and within seconds has an email back linking him to an SQL database via an ODBC connected Excel sheet.
From there he wirelessly prints a report, turns to the shepherd and says ‘You have 1586 sheep’.
‘That’s right’ says the shepherd.
‘Well, a deal is a deal, you can take one’.
The shepherd watches on with amusement as the yuppie struggles to get a sheep into the BMW so he says: ‘If I correctly guess the nature of your business, I get my sheep back’.
‘OK’ says the young man.
‘You’re a consultant’ says the shepherd.
‘That’s right!’ says the yuppie.
‘How did you know?’
‘Simple’ says the shepherd.
‘You turned up without being called and want to get paid for giving me an answer I already knew to a question I never asked’.
‘And it’s clear you know nothing about handling animals - so give me back my dog!’
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