#2 The Entrepreneur
My youngest son (younger by a grand total of 2 minutes) is a budding entrepreneur.

Example 1
At the age of six he wanted to sell tickets around the village where we lived at the time so everyone could come and watch our cockerels have a punch up - I mentioned it here. I did tell him that Cock Fighting is illegal in the UK. He said he couldn't see why as they wanted to fight and he could make money from them....


Example 2
Last year he and his brother were both given £1 each by an elderly great aunt who then took them to a local boot fair. Both boys browsed the stalls and the elder picked out a skateboard he like the look of, but it was priced at 50p so he walked away to think about it. The young Alan Sugar jumps in, purchases the board in a deal with some matchbox cars and chases after his more thoughtful brother.

"Look!" he says, "I got the skateboard you wanted! And some cars!"

Yes, he does talk with exclamation marks, he's also irritatingly enthusiastic about everything.

His brother smiles as he thinks this is filial kindness and generosity....

"If you still want the skateboard I'll sell it to you for 75p."

He got the money.


Example 3
He's running some sort of racket at his primary school involving Yu-Gi-Oh cards - I'm not sure what's going on but he keeps coming back with money each day and more cards….

Example 4
He's very good at extortion. And he's amazing at mental arithmetic. I take them both to the local village shop on a Thursday afternoon after school - they both have 50p to spend. He always somehow ends up with more sweets for his money and his brother has less.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 17 Apr 2008, 18:32, 3 replies)

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That's a pretty clever kid you got there. I remember I used to have a similar thing going on at secondary school, whereas I would go to the ice cream van for friends and get their stuff allowing them to be lazy. In return, I got 10 or 20 pence per person per trip.

If I could manage to remember 5 peoples orders each trip, and make a good 5 or 6 trips per lunchtime, I could easily pentuple my lunch money :)
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 17 Apr 2008, 18:39, closed)

Changed it
No idea how I managed to cock that one up...as it were...ahem.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 17 Apr 2008, 18:48, closed)

Ah ha ha ha ha
You said cock! Teehee!

Infantile jokes aside, it was actually fairly funny for the intended reasons.

*Sniggers*
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 17 Apr 2008, 18:50, closed)