When you have children, you want what is best for them. This includes making sure they have what they need to have a long and successful life.

There are also times when a parent wants to know what their child plans on doing with their life, and the child is not always willing to share. This happened to the parents in the following joke with the funniest results.

Sometimes, a little bit of mystery is not a bad idea. It allows us to continue to work on helping our children without being focused. Then again, the fact that the parents wanted to know in this joke really leaves us laughing.

A man and his wife are discussing what they think their son will be when he grows up.

“I have an idea,” says the father. He puts a ten-dollar bill, a bottle of whiskey, and a Bible on the coffee table.

“If he takes the money, he’ll be a banker. If he takes the whiskey, he’ll be a wino, and if he takes the Bible, that means he’ll be a preacher.”

So the man and his wife hide just before their son comes in the door, and watch from where they’re hiding.

The boy saunters over to the coffee table. He picks up the ten-dollar bill, loodks at it, then sets it down. He picks up the bottle of whiskey, uncorks it, sniffs it, then sets it down. He picks up the Bible, leafs through it, and sets it down.

Then the boy takes the money and stuffs it into his pocket, grabs the whiskey, and walks off with the Bible under his arm.

“Well, how do you like that!” exclaims the father “He’s going to be a politician!”