Fitting Story

Today we did another yard sale. Our entire neighborhood was having one so we chimed in and set our stuff up as well. The sale was to begin at 7:00am. At 6:30am people were roaming our garage as we were busy trying set stuff out - they were asking for MK's bike, tools, etc, none of which was for sale! We were very pleased with our sales results especially when our last customer helped us go above our goal. You see, she was Chinese. Ryan was outside and they were discussing a set of items that we had placed a price on. Of course, I am all about bargaining and so I more than understand this tactic. The lady told Ryan she would pay $10 less than what we had it priced for. Ryan met her halfway at $5 less and the lady gave a firm, "No." OK, well it was the end of the sale, we really had no reason not to give it to her for her desired price so Ryan approached her again and said, "Ok, you can have this item for $10 less than we are asking...." At this point MK appeared on the scene. The lady noticed MK. MK politely ignored her. The lady asked Ryan where she was from. Ryan said, "China and we have another daughter in China as well. In fact, we are doing this yard sale to raise money to bring our daughter home." With this, the lady handed Ryan all of her money which, coincidentally, was the original amount we had placed on the item. She smiled and said, "You are doing a good thing. You can have this money to bring your daughter home." How fitting, the last customer to place money in our hands during our sale for Maddox was from China.