A young woman with a baby in her arms entered the butcher shop and confronted the butcher with the news. that the baby was his and asked what he was going to do about it? He said, he’d offered to provide her with free meat until the boy was 16. She agreed, the butcher had been counting years off on his calendar and one day the teenager who had been collecting the meat each week, came into the shop and said, I’ll be 16 tomorrow. I knew, said the butcher, with a smile I’ve been counting too to tell your mother when you take this pair of meat home that is the last free meat she’ll get and watch the expression on her face. When the boy arrived home, he told his mother. the woman nodded and said, Son, go back to the butcher and tell him. I have also had free bread, free milk and free groceries for the last 16 years and watch the expression on his face.