What a Really Wrong Answer Looks Like

The Nelson twins have bitten the bullet. They’re engaged to be married, and get this— they’re marrying sisters. And true to form, they’re trying to talk their sweethearts into a double ceremony. Some twins might crave their own space, but the Nelson boys have been inseparable from birth. The girls aren’t much sold on the idea, though, and I don’t blame ‘em. The jury’s still out but I predict a win for the women and a little separation for the brothers. It’s rare, but it happens.

Once, when they were juniors in high school, the boys applied for jobs working in the warehouse of a big box store to make a little spending money. Unfortunately for them, the manager was only looking to hire one stock-boy. Faced with the two look-alikes and hard-pressed as to what to do, the man decided to pass out a couple sheets of paper and give the twins a short aptitude test to determine who should get the job.

The twins were sitting outside in the parking lot waiting for the results when the manager opened the door and motioned for them to come back inside. “Follow me,” he said. When they got to his office, he gave them their scores and then he broke the news to Billy. “I’m sorry,” he said, “but I’m going to have to hire your brother.”

“I don’t understand how you can do that,” Billy complained. “I thought you said we both got nine answers right.”

The manager looked at Billy sternly. “That’s what I said, son. But the decision wasn’t based on the correct answers. It was based on the question both of you boys missed.”
That really confused Billy. “But, how could one wrong answer be better than the other?” he asked.

“Do you really want to know?” the manager asked.

“Yes, sir.”

“It’s really simple,” the manager said. “For question five, your brother Bob wrote down, ‘I don’t know’. You wrote, ‘neither do I.'”

Hugs,
Shellie