50 cents or 1 dollar

wow. The wisest boy ever .. the boy is the smartest. and, the guy who is dropping the coins is the dumbest. jack-a$$ it is because, if the boy picked up the dollar, the person would have asked for it, and pocketed that. .. but, as the boy picked up just the half-dollar coin, the person presumed the boy to be stupid, and gave yet another 50cents, the next day. cheers.

For me if you want to give we've got to hand it, i wont pick up anything that was thrown at me,, now you can hand us the the full story..

The boy is VERY lucky.....and smart. The person dropping the money and his friend are losing 50 cents every time they do their experiment. But the boy is getting 50 cents for FREE every time. And by not taking the dollar, these guys are going to keep trying their experiment and showing their friends who are going to try the experiment, and they're going to say, "This boy is a fool......why doesn't he pick up the dollar? Let's try it again." But who's really the fool?

i have never heard this story, i think that the boy for once could be a stupid, and for others could be the same.. the opinions are differents.. for me is the same lol :P have a nice day

I've enjoyed reading the comments. You are smart too as to how you've managed to arouse our curiosity and excitement. Adds fun really.

Intellectually advanced

Hi bluemoonpavilion by reading this story i hope this is a different story line.As from my point of view i am thinking that boy is intelligent because if the boy do's like that then daily he can get 50cents.So, that this may don't stop.If he take the 1 dollar then no one don't observe him about this. The boy is same type of me i think. He is smarter like me. Just kidding.

Smart boy and his accomplice, ha? What a tandem in crime. . .

Your discussion draws my attention. After I read it, I understand that this boy is very smart. When he always picks up the 50 cents coin, then next day he can pick up another 50 cents coin continuously. If at first he chose to pick up the one dollar coin, then at the end he could only gain one dollar rather than the unlimited money:) I love China

Wow,Definitely he is smart. So he earns a 50 cents daily.... Nice Topic Anyway.

Fun story. It seems pretty obvious that it was smarter for the boy to leave the dollar bill.

I believe the boy is clever, butcause if the man will test every day he gets 50 cents every day = $3.5 a week - oppoesed to if he picks up the $1 he is only of with a total of $1

1000 readers have 1000 Hamlets in their hearts.so it depends.as we don't know all the context ,it is hard to get a conclusion.

Well, it's pretty interesting. It's either he is a 50 cent collector or he can't see the 1 dollar. I believe if it's other people, they will pick up both. Don't you think so?

I don't know what happens next because I don't know the story. Did the boy pick up the fifty cents so that the man would test him and give him another fifty cents? I think it would be better to just pick up the dollar since in the end, he still only got a dollar and what if the man decides not to test him? But children are creative so let them do it their way.

bluemoonpavilion the boy was more clever than smart as if he had pocked all of it or the dollar, the person would have asked for the dollar back b but instead he just passed the boy off as stupid so the kid picked up another fifty cents without any reprecussions.

smart kid - stupid guys. I'd do the same thing, get the 50 cents till all of their friends try doing the same thing. I'd be earning with not much efforts. lol. I wouldn't care if they think I'm a fool. I think they are more stupid.

the boy is super SMART!! if he had picked the dollar, he might not get any in future.. now it keep the STUPID man to keep dropping his 50 cents.. :D Also, this story tells us 'with less greed, we earn more"... agree with me?

The boy is clever and outsmarted that person dropping the coins.Well, this is how and what the story presents. The man will continuously dropping coins until he figures ou why the boy always picking up the 50 cents rather than the dollar. Or he keeps himself amused thinking that the boy hasn't figured it out yet that he is stupid picking 50 cents than the dollar.Hence, unaware that the joke is on him. Realistically speaking, I doubt if that person will keep dropping coins to figure out the mystery all by himself, without asking the boy.:)

Sweetie, no idiot will keep on dropping one dollar to be picked up. The boy is smarter than the idiot, though. TATA.