A man goes into an Italian cobbler's shop with a pair of shoes to be heeled. He makes it clear that he must have the shoes that same evening, and that if the cobbler can't do the job, he won't leave the shoes. The cobbler swears that the shoes will be ready.
That evening, the man returns to find that the shoes are not ready, and, exasperated, he asks the cobbler why he swore to him that they would be.
The cobbler replies: "Telling you that they'd be ready, even when I knew they wouldn't, made you happy all day."
—"Genetic Coding," by Gilbert Sorrentino, from Something Said.
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