Wednesday, September 2, 2009

London's Lemonade Stand

This is deserving of its own post. All summer long London had been asking and asking if she could do a lemonade stand. I'd put her off and put her off until the last week of summer vacation. We gathered the supplies at the store, pulled out the kids' play table to the sidwalk, and she sold lemonade at 50cents a cup. Her business plan included selling her hand-crocheted bracelts, and selling blow-pops. She hired McAllister to do security ("Make sure no one steals our stuff, Tass!") and hired Daisy to do publicity ("You yell, Lemonade! Lemonade!" - which she did with almost too much vigor).
btw, the little white box on the table she made out of paper, and says 'TIPS please pay gratuity'
this cop stopped and said she had to buy lemonade, she has 2 young children of her own. Yes, that is a line behind her!It was a huge success. New Yorkers are the finest, kindest people in the world. People were so impressed (and truly wanted the lemonade), that after 45 minutes both huge pitchers were empty and she was $25 richer (never mind the overhead costs). She paid Tass his $1.50 (even though he was so shy he hid under the table and ate lollipops most of the time), and Daisy her 50 cents (even though her unabashed yelling was worth more than that), and put the rest in her wallet.

She's saving for an iTouch.

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