Ruby<\/a>…of her own volition…made an unsolicited offer to trade with me.<\/p>\nShe wanted some of my coke, “a sip” and I am not generally big on either drinking Coke or giving it to my kids, I couldn’t resist when she offered me some of her chips. \u00a0 After declining to give her a sip, she said, “You can have my chips.”<\/p>\n
Now, the truth was that the chips were soggy, they had the dregs of her burrito on them, and they only had value because her brother wanted to eat them.<\/p>\n
But, I had to complete the exchange and so she got to taste coke for either the first or second time.<\/p>\n
Here’s to a long life of equally successful trades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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