My grandmother used to run a general store out in a small rural village where I grew up. She had the only store in town, and she sold everything from groceries, to gas, barbed wire by the spool, salt licks for cows, nails by the pound, you get the idea. It was a super busy place.
One time, my grandmother asked her father to look after his three young grandsons so she could get some work done in peace.
He sat them all in a row on the counter and gave them candy to keep them busy as he started to tell them a story.
A customer observing this scene said: "Look at you, you must be so proud to have three such beautiful grandsons!"
To which he replied: "Yeah, you couldn't pay me millions of dollars to part with a single one of them...but I wouldn't give a dollar for another one though..."
One time, my grandmother asked her father to look after his three young grandsons so she could get some work done in peace.
He sat them all in a row on the counter and gave them candy to keep them busy as he started to tell them a story.
A customer observing this scene said: "Look at you, you must be so proud to have three such beautiful grandsons!"
To which he replied: "Yeah, you couldn't pay me millions of dollars to part with a single one of them...but I wouldn't give a dollar for another one though..."