Monday, 7 May 2007

conversations between two 7-year olds

i bear witness to this conversation ...
boy 1 : have you now decided how to earn extra money this summer?
boy 2 : oh yes, my dad's going to give me 20 crowns for a basketful of weeds i pluck from our garden. how about you?
boy 1 : my mom's garden is full of snails eating up on her flower beds so she told me that as it had been last year, she will give me 50 öre for each snail i can take away from the garden.
boy 2 : how many snails did you collect last year?
boy 1 : well about 1,000 snails
boy 2 : wow, that's quite a lot of snails. you must have earned a lot last year.
boy 1 : well, actually, i picked only about a hundred and then i showed them to my mom and collected my money. afterwards, i let the snails off back in the garden and then pick them up again after a while to show my mom so i get more pay. i did a couple of rounds doing this until i had enough money. neat plan, huh?
well, that's enterpreneurship at a very tender age ...

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