October 26, 2005

  • This afternoon as Dmitry and I drove away from school, he idly observed
    that he sure does a good business with those turkey-bacon-lettuce
    sandwiches I often make for his lunch.

    "A good business?" I echoed, startled. "Do you mean you're selling them?"  Frankly, I was torn between outrage and feeling rather flattered.

    "No," he hastened to assure me, "I don't sell them.  I trade them.  Today I traded them for four hot dogs!"  He sounded quite complacent about this exchange.

    Anyway, it turns out he wants two sandwiches so at least one can be
    used as lunchroom currency, swapped for whatever the day's market will
    bear.  Sometimes a drink, sometimes a different sandwich,
    etc.  And occasionally he swaps both of 'em for four hot dogs. 

Comments (12)

  • Wow.  I don't think I ever made a sandwich worth four hot dogs in my whole life.  Congratulations, Anne!

  • Well, at today's rate of exchange, one sandwich = two hot dogs; he had to give both sandwiches to score four dogs.

  • Trade a turkey and bacon sandwich for something as lowly as a hotdog? Scandalous!

  • Dmitry has what you'd call lowbrow tastes.

  • Was it turkey and bacon or turkey bacon?? That would make a difference tradewise in my opinion.

  • Turkey AND bacon. Plus lettuce. On Mrs. Baird's Seven-Grain bread.

  • LOL a cheap hotdog on a white bun will ALWAYS beat out turkey on seven-grain bread for a teenaged boy.

    I don't recognize your veggie -- is that a new character?

  • Hey, Dmitry loves that sandwich, but as you say, hot dogs trump it.

    And that's a character from the VeggieTale's "Minnesota Cuke".

  • Which is why I decided to pay for school lunches. That way there is no emotion involved in it if he trades what he doesn't want for something he does.

  • So it is a new one then -- new to me, at least. Another one for the Christmas list (for the kids, of course!)

    It does sound like a yummy sandwich, but yep, that's what I meant. Turkey's high, but hot dogs trump.

  • Anne!  The kid's got a head for business! He has an eye for trends and what's "cool".  He can dicker for what he wants.  He can sell what he's got...I'm tellin' ya, there's a foothold for the future here!

  • You might be right, Eleanor. That's a very good point. ;^)

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