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A friend and his five year old son were heading have after a soccer game.  Assuming the boy’s subdued mood was due to his team’s loss, my friend tried to reassure him that he had done a good job, even though he had played only in part of the game.  “But Dad,” the boy said, “the coach told me to sit out for a quarter.  And he hasn’t paid me yet.” - contributed by Tan Horner

Reader’s Digest, December 1993, page 100