(I think I've told this one before...)
When I was around ten or eleven, one of my brothers and I had the idea to pick and sell chestnuts to earn money for Christmas - there was a chestnut copse on the farm. Da gave us permission and said he would help us find a buyer.
When it came time to sell, he set us up with a greengrocer in the town who said he'd take everything in one go. We had two huge sacks of chestnuts. The grocer weighed them out, then said, 'I'm deducting two pounds for the weight of the sacks. I'm only paying for the nuts.' As soon as we got the cash in hand, Da emptied both sacks onto the floor of the man's shop and said, 'Since you're not paying for the sacks, we'll be after taking them with us.'
That one incident taught me more about business and treating people fairly than anything else.
Boru
When I was around ten or eleven, one of my brothers and I had the idea to pick and sell chestnuts to earn money for Christmas - there was a chestnut copse on the farm. Da gave us permission and said he would help us find a buyer.
When it came time to sell, he set us up with a greengrocer in the town who said he'd take everything in one go. We had two huge sacks of chestnuts. The grocer weighed them out, then said, 'I'm deducting two pounds for the weight of the sacks. I'm only paying for the nuts.' As soon as we got the cash in hand, Da emptied both sacks onto the floor of the man's shop and said, 'Since you're not paying for the sacks, we'll be after taking them with us.'
That one incident taught me more about business and treating people fairly than anything else.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
