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"Here's your five."
"I thought you had to get the money?"
"Oh I do. I do and I will. In the meantime you hang on to all of the money, and I'll go ask for some."
Morgan comes to Mom and says, "We're all in bad shape. We're not going to make it to the end of the month. Can you help us out?"
Mom thinks about it and says, "Well, since Paul has a job, how about if I give Paul five dollars? You give Peter half of what you owe him, five dollars, and Peter waits on Paul's money until his paycheck. That way everyone has five dollars until the end of the month."
"No. No. No. That will never work. I need ten to make it, and so does Peter."
"What about Paul?"
"Him. Oh he'll be fine. He has a job. Besides he has everything he needs until the end of the month, and if he doesn't, Peter and I are right there. I'm sure we could scrounge up a quarter or something each to loan him, if it's really desperate."
"Isn't it unfair to just give money to the two of you and nothing to him?"
"No, because if we hadn't loaned Paul all of our money we'd have enough ourselves. So you see its all Paul's fault. Okay how about you give the money Paul's supposed to pay back to us now so we can make it."
"Didn't he borrow that money to buy some boots for work?"
"Well if he'd made do with the old ones a little longer none of us would be in this mess. It's all his fault."
"Okay how about I give you and Peter the money Paul owes you for the boots, then everyone can be happy."
"How's that fair? He'd get new boots and all we'd get is our money back."
"Oh. Alright. I'll give you and Peter the money back for the boots."
"And?"
