Kids and Work

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Not sure how many of my friends knew I ran a very successful ceramic business for 25 years. Every piece was hand made and finished completely by me. One day in Summer my two youngest came and said MOM we want to go to Six Flags (its a theme park) So I told them if they made 50.00 I would match it and take them. All of a sudden my 4 and 10 year old became entreprenuers. They walked around my working shop and got them a flat soda box and would come and say do you need this? Well they got a soda box full, and also snuck out a old AVON ticket book to write orders in that I used to use when I sold Avon. Off they went. Pretty soon I hear them running in the door and come flying down the stairs. They empty their pockets and counted the money and those two kids had made their 50.00 and then some. I looked at them and said Where did you get all this? they said you told us to do something so we sold all your old samples. Next thing was do you have anymore? I looked at them and asked them HOW did you sell all this? My son the youngest piped up saying We walked to the door, rang the doorbell and someone would come to the door. So we just said We need you to buy something out of this box so we can go to Six Flags. I guess since they were genuine in what they wanted the people probably had a chuckle and gave them a couple bucks and a piece out of the box. But what they did not tellme for several minutes was that they had taken orders of people that wanted more of one item or another. They had another 75.00 in orders. Guess who had to stop work and take my darling childen to six flags the next day? Your kids ever do something like that?