The father still found this odd but only wanted to make his son happy so on the day of his birthday gave him the ping pong balls. The son was super excited and took all of the ping pong balls upstairs to his room, and the ping pong balls were never seen again. Let's fast forward to the son's marriage. He is 25 and it is a week before his marriage. The father wants to get him a good present so he asked him "Son, I want your wedding to be extra special to you, so you can have any present you want for your marriage." The son thinks for a while and says "I want 10,000 blue ping pong balls." The father only wants to make his son happy. He gave them to him and he drove away with them. The father then gets a call that the son has been in an accident driving and he's in the hospital. The father rushes to his bedside and says "Son, before you die I want to know one thing. What happened to all the blue ping pong balls that I gave you?" The son looked the father in the eye, and died.