
learning the price of stuff
A group of guys are at a bar. One guy, trying to elicit sympathy from the gang, says "My wife charges me $50 each time we have sex". His buddies look at each other and one goes "That's pretty good, dude; she charges us $100."
Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.
- - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897