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Originally posted by Vick@Nov 24 2002, 08:18 AM
Maybe not my first memory of money but one of my first
about 7 years of age my Grandfather built me a shoe shine box and I started shining shoes of the men in the neighborhood and at my great grandfather's bait and tackle shop.
My Great Grandfather paid me a quarter to shine his shoes, one of the men who worked for him paid me fifty cents to shine his shoes and told my Great Grandfather he was cheap and should pay me fifty cents too. I still didn't get the quarter raise per shoe shine from my Great Grandfather
At Christmas year before last my Grandfather gave me a very special present .......... he had found the shoe shine box he built me 30 years ago and gave it to me for Christmas ..... it now sits in my office with a sign that reads "Your First Business Venture"
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I think I know WHY he paid you quarter, while his employee paid you 50 cents...
I learned another charecter of human nature when I was working in car service in Hassidic part of Brooklyn,
Boro Park.
I had a fair to Manhattan, 47th Street,
diamond district,
getting one of the owners to work,
$12.50 trip, with...25 cents tip.
The other customer of mine was going to Nursing home,
$6 fair with...$2! tips.
both Jews, both religious,
so the "heritage" wasn't any different,
and I asked myself WHY?
I think I got the right answer, which was later on confirmed by other people who witnessed the similar phenomena-
the richer the person, the smaller the tip.
Rich people don't have to proof to the world that they are reach, and quite self confident,
and it's a poor ones who feel better about themselves by leaving big tips,
making bigger donations to Red Cross than their rich neigbors...
human nature at it's best.
Have anybody witnessed this phenomena themselves?