On a warm summer night, a young lady entered the butcher shop with startling news for the butcher: The baby in her arms was his.
Nonplussed, the butcher
didn't know what to do, and eventually offered the only thing he thought
he could - he offered to provide her with free meat until the boy was
16. She agreed.
He had
been counting the 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 know,"
said the butcher with a smile, "I've been counting too, tell your
mother, when you take this parcel of meat home, that it 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!"
