Today our church held an easter egg hunt. The teens showed up earlier to help stuff and hide the eggs for the little kids. We're not allowed to hunt for the eggs because we're too old, so Neal and I hatched (ha, ha, HATCHED--get it-- easter egg?) a plan to get our fill of candy. -
SO we stuffed certain eggs chalk-full of goodies and hid them in hard and designated places, like in clumps of grass or in the mole-holes where no normal 7-year old is gonna look.
When the race for eggs began, we took Eliza and Annelise to hunt for the eggs. We led them to the special eggs which, of course, no one had found yet. Halfway through the hunt, I counted Eliza and Annelise's baskets and found about 20 eggs per girl.
Now, Neal and I weren't going to be nice to our pesky sisters, for nothing, there was a method to our madness. We had gotten them to agree to a 40% tax, 20% to me, 20% to Neal. Now, we had helped them collect 2/3 of the eggs, anyways. If we hadn't of helped them, they would have only had about 7 eggs each. 66-40=26. They're profit was 26%. In the end, we both scored.
While we were strutting with 20 eggs in our baskets, there was this 2-year old who had only one egg. He looked at us with his big blue eyes and that totally melted my heart of steel. I had to dish out a couple eggs. I knew that it was less for me, and Neal was giving me a hard time about it, but the adults were giving me dirty looks as their own kid had just 4 eggs, so I ended up handing out the eggs to anyone who asked. Annelise didn't mind sharing, but ELiza figured out that the more I gave out, the fewer we had.
We started to count out our share of tasty corn-syrupy goodness, when my dad told us to save the greed until we were home and out of the public eye. So, Neal and I decided that, for waiting an extra hour, we would charge 10% interest as well. We added in a little tax for hiding the eggs and another itsy-bitsy one for going through the trouble of counting the candy out.
Kinda sounds like big brother (sister), huh? Unneccessary tax here, another one there. Gas tax, ammo tax, commerce tarriffs. Bail you out, then take over your business, and give free handouts to the jobless hippy next door.
Big Brother is taking care of you!!!
SCREW AROUND AND FIND OUT
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