<a building is on fire.  people are getting burned and/or smoked to death. firemen are trying their best.>
<A and B are staring distantly at it.>
B to A: "what do you think?"
A: "It's a lot of nightmares in one place.."
B: "Well you don't feel like doing anything about it?"
A: "well there's not really anything to do.."
B: <comes up with something simple and clever, and goes and does it - helping them and the firemen>
A to C: <feeling ridiculous> "So, how much am I worth now?"
C: "...about a dollar."
A: "Thanks; do you have a dollar?"