During the annual pumpkin competition, a mean old lady loses once again to her arch-nemesis (who happens to be very nice), so when she is approached by a professor who claims to have a potion to create super-sized vegetables, she jumps at the chance. The only problem is that she is a bit tight with her money, and he wants ten thousand dollars for the secret. She gives him five thousand, and he grudgingly accepts.
Thinking she got the best of the deal, she goes through the year and grows her large pumpkin, then bets her nemsis her estate and bank account that she will win. The other lady doesn’t want to, but eventually accepts. Then as the contest nears, she can’t get her pumpkin there. So she stakes it and ties it to the back of the car, and tows it all the way to the fairgrounds. As she gets there, only the top is left, but she figures it is still big enough to win.
Only then does she see the other entries – they are huge – at least as big as her pumpkin was originally – and she finds out that the professor asked the other townsfolk for the remaining five thousand dollars to complete his research, and they gladly made up the difference. Nicely done.
