Serious Intentions

No Monkeying Around!

Meet Joe Monkey and Mai Monkey.

One day Mai Monkey and Joe Monkey were playing around.

They decided to have a snack …

But Joe Monkey had the last one! What were they to do?

Joe told Mai, I’ll sell you my banana for $2! Mai agreed!

But Joe wasn’t serious, he was just kidding!

Because Joe wasn’t serious when he made the offer, the offer wasn’t valid.

For an offer to be effective the offeror must not be “monkeying around”. He/she must mean to make the offer.