A man wakes up in the hospital, bandaged from head to foot.
His surgeon comes into his room and says, "Ah, I see you've regained consciousness. Now, you probably won't remember, but you were in a pile-up on the freeway. You're going to be okay, you'll walk again and everything, but... Something happened."
Pausing to choose his words carefully, the doc continued, "I'm trying to break this gently, but the fact is, your dongle was chopped off in the wreck and the paramedics were unable to find it."
The man groans, but the doctor goes on, "Now, you've got $10,000 in insurance compensation coming and we have the technology now to build you a new dinger that will work as well as your old one did - better in fact! But the thing is, it doesn't come cheap. It's $1000 an inch."
The man perks up at this.
"So," the doctor says, ”It's for you to decide how many inches you want. However, it's something you'd better discuss with your wife. I mean, if you had a five inch one before, and you decide to go for a nine incher, she might be a bit put off. But if you had a nine inch one before, and you decide only to invest in a five incher this time, she might be disappointed. So we feel that it is important that your wife also plays a role in helping you make the decision."
The man agrees to talk with his wife that evening.
The doctor comes back the next day. "So," says the doctor, "have you spoken with your wife?"
"I have," says the man.
"And what is the decision?" asks the doctor.
"We're getting granite counter tops."