« Reply #25 on: July 02, 2009, 04:14:47 PM »
This reminds me of when I got into trouble, when in the first grade.
Seven years of age.
There were plenty of medical textbooks in the house where I spent my childhood, and one day I got this idea of making some money off of them. I couldn't sell them, of course, but I could rent them.
I took three of them to school one day; a very large book with transparent plates of the layer of the human eye, a textbook illustrating contagious diseases, and a textbook on obstetrics, also filled with photographs.
At first, I charged everybody a dime to look inside one of the books, any one of the three. But then I noticed something peculiar, and adjusted my rates accordingly.
I still charged a dime to look at the book of the layers of the human eye, but charged two dimes to look at the book of contagious diseases--the photographs of victims of leprosy were the big draw in that one--and five cents to look at the book with the photographs of naked women.
The teacher caught on in mid-afternoon--the market had been open since the start of the day--and confiscated the books, giving them back to my parents after a conference among them. I never did learn what they talked about.
Gotta add to what Eupher said . . .
Coach, I very nearly put a Saranac Pomegranate Wheat beer onto my screen. Several ounces, too.
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