
But the son kept begging. Unable to bear his son's whining, he picks up his axe one day and heads out of the house. Thirty minutes later he returns with a great big Christmas tree.
"How did you cut it down so fast?" his son asks.
"I didn't cut it down, I got it at a tree lot" the father replies.
Son: "Then why did you bring an axe?"
Father: "Because I didn't want to pay."