This was sent to me by my friend Jeremy.
A
man was traveling in a hot air balloon and had become completely lost. He spied
a man walking way down below, so he lowered the balloon within calling range.
“Excuse me,” he called out, “I promised a friend I would meet him a half hour from now and I have no idea where I am. Can you help me out?”
“Excuse me,” he called out, “I promised a friend I would meet him a half hour from now and I have no idea where I am. Can you help me out?”
The
man on the ground said, “Certainly. You are in a hot air balloon about 30 feet above the ground. You're at
longitude 70 degrees west and latitude 30 degrees north.”
The
man in the balloon thought on it a moment and said, “You have got to be a
sponsor.”
The
man on the ground said, “As a matter of fact I am a sponsor, but how did you
know?”
The
man in the balloon said, “Everything you've told me is technically correct, but
I have no idea what to do with the information and, frankly, I'm still lost.”
The
man on the ground nodded and said, “You must be a sponsee.”
The
man in the balloon said , “As a matter of fact, I am a sponsee, but how did you
know?”
The
man on the ground said, “You have no idea where you are, you have no idea where
you're going. You've made a promise you have no idea how to keep. You expect me
to solve your problem for you and even though you are in the exact same
position you were in before we met, it has now somehow become my fault.”
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