Better Than Walmart

Today book orders were due. I had told my students this time that they could pay by either check or with cash. So today one of my boys was busily filling out his book order form first thing this morning. He was very excited to be ordering some books. He then brought the form to me.

"Do you have a check?" I asked.

"No," he replied.

His order cost $10.00. "Do you have enough money," I asked again.

"Yes," he replied. "I have $14.00, but I'm saving the $4.00." He dug into his pocket and pulled out a small wad of bills. "See?" he said. He then peeled off two $5 dollar bills, and handed them to me. Then he said, "Here's one more dollar in case there's tax!"

I said, "Oh, that's the nice thing about book orders! There's no tax!"

"Really?" he said. "Wow! That's better than Walmart!"