The Gift

Flying home after a business trip the week before Christmas, a manager thought it would be nice to bring his wife a little gift.

He walked into duty free and asked one of the sales assistants, "Could you recommend some perfume for my wife?" She showed him a pretty little bottle of perfume costing £50.

"That's a bit much," he said, so she returned with a smaller bottle of eau de parfum for £30.

"That's still quite a bit," he groused and growing frustrated, the sales assistant brought out a £10 bottle of eau de toilette.

At this he grew agitated, "What I mean," he said, "is I'd like to see something really cheap."

So the sales assistant handed him a mirror...