A young college student had
stayed up
all night studying for his zoology test the next day. As he
entered
the classroom, he saw ten stands with ten birds on them with a
sack
over each bird and only the legs showing. He sat right on the front
row because he wanted to do the best job possible. The professor
announced that the test would be to look at each set of bird legs and
give the
common name, habitat, genus, species, etc.
The
student looked at each set of bird legs. They all looked the same
to him.
He began to get upset. He had stayed up all night studying, and
now
had to identify birds by their legs. The more he thought about it,
the madder he got. Finally, he could stand it no longer. He went up to
the professor’s desk and said, „What a stupid test! How could
anyone
tell the difference between birds by looking at their legs?“
With that
the student threw his test on the professor’s desk an
d walked out the
door.
The professor was surprised. The
class was so big that he didn’t know
every student’s name, so as the
student reached the door the professor
called, „Mister, what’s
your name?“
The enraged student pulled up his pant legs and said,
„You guess,
buddy! You guess!“
