The teacher asked three boys to write an essay. She said,

The teacher asked three boys to write an essay. She said, "Write on what
you would do if you had a million dollars, and bring it in tomorrow."

So the next day the three little boys came in. She said to the first boy,
"Percy, this is a nice essay on what you'd do with a million dollars. You
said you'd give your mother a new home, your father a new car, send your
sister to college--I think that's wonderful." And she said to the second
boy, "I'm proud of you, David. You wrote a nice essay on what you'd do with
a million dollars. You'd buy your mother a Cadillac and a mink coat ..."

She looked at the paper of the third boy. She said, "Donny, you're paper
has nothing on it!" He said, "That's what I'd do with a million dollars.
Nothing!"
-- Moms Mabley