Birdseed
One day, a boy planted birdseed in the family garden. Each morning the boy faithfully walked to the garden to monitor progress, but didn’t find what he was looking for. The nanny observed the boy’s strange fixation with the garden and asked the boy what he was doing. He said, “I wanted to have a pet parakeet, so I planted some parakeet seed in the garden but for some reason I can’t get a parakeet to grow.”
“You stupid kid,” replied the nanny. “You forgot to water it.”