This was 33% off all clothing at the Thrift Store day. H, A and E all came with me and we shopped for clothing for A and W. I had previous shopped with H earlier in the month and she received a lot of cute things, so this day, she had a responsibility of keeping a running total of our expenditures at the store. Several times when I would call out prices for her to write down, she would say, "Mom, just a minute. Here is a cute shirt. Can I have it?" If it was her size I would say, "Okay, but we are not shopping for you today. Would you please pick up your notebook and write down these prices please." Reluctantly she would comply. After 30 minutes of shopping her attention span was gone non-existent and she was had melted to a heap on the floor. She wanted to shop. She didn't want to add prices. I reasoned with her to no avail, so we ended our trip, much to her horror, because she had wanted to look for a pair of dress shoes. As we checked out she continued to defended herself by saying she was tired and just couldn't write anymore. I came her defense and said, "And since you are so tired, it would be unkind of me to make you walk anymore in search of dress shoes. We are going home so you can rest." Little did she know that her new maths books would be waiting on our front porch when we go home and her days of simple addition at he thrift store were over.
To her credit she admitted that she wasn't tired and lucky for her I was looking for a specific item that I did not find at that thrift store. So, we stopped by another thrift store and H was elated to find a pair of dress shoes that she liked.
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