The Over-Qualified Opponent

A man walks into a bar and clears his voice to the crowd of drinkers. He says, "I hear you guys are a bunch of hard drinkers. I'll give $500 to anybody in here who can drink 10 pints of dark beer back-to-back."

The room is quiet and no one takes up the man's offer. One man even leaves. Ten minutes later the same gentleman who left shows back up and taps the the challenger on the shoulder.

"Is your bet still good?", asks the man.

The challenger says yes and asks the bartender to line up 10 pints of Guinness. Immediately the other man tears into all 10 of the pint glasses drinking them all back-to-back. The other pub patrons cheer as the challenger sits in amazement.

The challenger gives the man the $500 and says, "If you don't mind me asking, where did you go for that 10 minutes you were gone?"

The man replies, "Oh...I had to go to the pub down the street to see if I could do it first."

Moral of the Story: Your competition may not even know he or she is in competition with you, but that doesn't mean they can't crush you anyway.