When his son asked for a lift in the car just to get to the end of their road, his father told him: "You should be ashamed. When Abraham Lincoln was your age, he used to walk ten miles every day to get to school." "Really?" said the boy. "Well, when he was your age, he was president!" At the age of six I was left an orphan. What kind of idiot gives an orphan to a six-year-old?