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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
Culture is funny. We have German Baptists, who will haggle mildly over anything, and some people who are "not from our western culture" for whom buying a dozen eggs is an act of war.
My friend's kid, about 10, raises chickens and sells eggs. I admire him for his ambition and his dad for supporting him. But he tells me about the time one of these people stopped for eggs. The price was $4 a dozen. She looked at every egg, opened another carton and sorted them out so she had a carton of eggs she liked, then offered the kid a $1. When he said "no" she picked up every egg and showed him some flaw that she imagined, told him he should be ashamed to sell such crappy eggs, etc etc. The boy was in tears. I don't know what eventually came of it. Chalk it up to a clash of cultures, I guess.
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I would have sent that lady packing, post haste. I cannot fathom doing that to anyone, let alone a kid. Unbelievable.