Practicality

Boudreaux’s twenty-one-year-old daughter tells her parents she has missed her period for two months. 

Very worried, they go to the drugstore and to buy a pregnancy kit.  The test result shows that the girl is pregnant.

Shouting, cursing, crying, Boudreaux says, “Who was the pig that did this to you? “I want to know!”

The girl picks up the phone and makes a call.

Half an hour later a Ferrari stops in front of the Boudreaux’s house; a mature and distinguished man with gray hair, impeccably dressed in a very expensive suit, steps out of the car and enters the house.

He sits in the living room with Boudreaux, the mother and the girl, and tells them, “Good morning, your daughter has informed me of the problem.  I can’t marry her because of my personal family situation, but I’ll take charge.  If a girl is born, I will bequeath her two retail stores, a townhouse, a beach villa and a $1,000,000 bank account.  If a boy is born, my legacy will be a couple of factories and a $2,000,000 bank account.  If it is twins, a factory and $1,000,000 each.  However, if there is a miscarriage, what do you suggest I do?”

At this point, Boudreaux, who had remained silent, places a hand firmly on the man’s shoulder and tells, “then you try again.”