No Sale Is Safe

Our community centre is having a “community garage sale”, so for $10, you get a table to sell whatever you want. I pay for a table so my six-year-old son can get rid of a lot of his old toys and keep the cash — win-win!

He has a ton of free toys from fast-food kids’ meals, and he starts selling them for fifty cents each. As the afternoon wears on and the good ones are all gone, he lowers the price to twenty cents.

A woman, who came by two hours ago and bought two toys, comes back.

Woman: “Refund these now, so that I can buy them back at the lower price.”

Me: “All the money was going to the kid. He’s trying to get rid of the last few that nobody wants.”

Of course, she starts yelling. My son says to me:

Son: “Dad, I’ll just give her the toys for free.”

The woman looks smugly triumphant.

Me: “Yup, lady, you won. You got a pair of free [Fast Food Place] toys from a six-year-old by being a class-A a**hat.”