John liked chocolates very much. But his mother never gave him any, because she thought they were bad for his teeth. But John had a very nice grandfather. The old man loved his grandson, and sometimes he brought John chocolates when he came to visit him.
Then John's mother let him eat them, because she wanted to make the old man happy.
One evening, a few days before John's seventh birthday, he was saying his wishes in his bedroom before he went to bed. "Please, God," he shouted, "make them give me a big box of chocolates for my birthday on Saturday."
His mother was in the kitchen, but she heard the small boy shouting and went into his room quickly.
"Why are you shouting, John?" she asked her son, "God can hear you when you talk quietly."
"I know," answered the boy with a smile on his face. After his mother went out, John said to himself, "My grandfather is in the next room, and he can't.