Paddy had been thinking about selling his old car for weeks.
It still ran well enough, but it had seen better days, and the mileage on the clock was so high that he knew nobody would offer him much money for it.
One afternoon, he mentioned it to his mate at the pub.
“I’m going to sell the car,” Paddy said, “but with all those miles on it, I’ll be lucky to get anything decent.”
His mate leaned closer and lowered his voice.
“Listen,” he said, “wind the mileage back a bit. Make it look like it hasn’t been used so much. You’ll get a much better price.”
Paddy thought this was brilliant advice.
A few days later, his mate saw him again and asked, “So, how did you get on with selling the car?”
Paddy smiled proudly.
“Oh, I didn’t sell it.”
His mate frowned. “Why not?”
Paddy said,
“Well, after I finished winding the mileage back, it only had 7,000 miles on the clock… so I decided to keep it!”
