My Little Entrepreneur

Today, Emmy dragged her table out into the driveway. She had a baggie with foam Valentine's Day stickers in various colors. She wrote the numbers 1,2,3, and 4 (all written backwards) on a sticky note and stuck it on the front of her table.

I asked her what she was doing.

She said that she was selling the stickers. And asked me if I wanted to be her first customer.

Of course I said yes, and asked her how much the stickers cost.

"Forty-one dollars," she replied.

Wow. I checked my pockets, but unfortunately I had no cash on me. So, I handed her a wad of invisible money.

Emmy looked at me like I was crazy. "No, Mama, forty-one real dollars."

"Well, I don't have any money today, so let's pretend. And forty-one dollars is a lot of money for one sticker," I replied.

She let out a huge sigh and reluctantly agreed to take my invisible money. I chose a pink foam sticker and put it on my shirt.

When Daddy got home, she asked him if he wanted to be her second customer. Of course he agreed and asked the same question as I did. She then told him, "The red stickers are free." And he took a red sticker.

I think I got ripped off. :)