As retold by Bruce Lowitt

Three mothers are talking about, what else?

"My Solly," one says, "he graduated in the top ten percent in his class at Princeton and now he's a lawyer in Chicago making three hundred thousand dollars a year."

"Really?" the second one says. "How nice. My Herbie, he graduated first in his class at Columbia moved to San Francisco and last year he made six hundred thousand dollars."

"Well," the third one says, "My Abie, he never did well is school and never went to college, but now he's making a million dollars a year in New York as a sports repairman."

"A sports repairman?" one of the others says. "What does he fix?"

"Baseball games, football games, basketball games ..."