It brought back memories of my childhood. You know before
Nintendo, IPads and shopping online.
My husband had picked up our twin grandgirls from Pre-K and as I walked in the house, I noticed he had removed all the items from our large coffee table in the den. On the table he had placed many items the girls play with when coming to our house. Old pocketbooks, costume jewelry, play cellphones (of course), books, etc. As I walked by I overheard one say, “how may I help you” to which the other replied, “Yes, I need to buy a pocketbook?” Since they are 4 years old, obviously the response was a ridiculous amount of money. As I listened intently and to my surprise they were really enjoying the bantering back and forth about the cost of the items. “Well that is just too much” I overheard “the shopper” say.
I couldn’t wait to ask my husband what all of this was
about. He had decided it was too hot for
the girls to play outside and perhaps, being married to a banker and he himself
semi-retired from the investment industry, he thought they needed a lesson in
how to be polite to customers and to learn the art of buying and selling. He even stated he had taught them how to
politely answer the phone (I immediately thought of people who missed that
course). Apparently “the business owner”
was rude upon answering her first call. So
he quickly chimed in with “that is not how you speak to your customer” and then
pretending to be the store owner showing the girls “the correct way” to answer
the phone!!
What a novel idea, children learning how to be polite on the
phone, learning the art of buying and selling, even learning that price tags
may be negotiable and to think NO APP was used. Why didn’t someone think of this before?
