Let's Play Restaurant !!!

Rubber Ducky tells an interesting tale on one of her friends (you know who you are).

It appears that in her younger days this friend was quite a manipulator of her younger sister. For her younger sister had a strength to be used and a weakness to be exploited.

The young girl’s strength was Waffles. She could make the most delicious waffles. Her weakness was a simple fact that she wanted to be included in her older sister’s activities. She didn’t like to be excluded from the bigger girls.

The scam was perpetrated as follows:

The younger girl wanted to play with the older girls so the older girls agreed if she would play “RESTAURANT”. The game was simple. The older girls were always the customers and the younger girl always owned the restaurant.

The older girls would go to the table and be waited on by the younger girl. The younger girl would take the orders, bring the beverages, cook the food (real food not imaginary), serve the food, and clean the table. When the meal was complete the younger girl would say: “Since I cooked the food you can clean the dishes.” But the older girls would say: “In the restaurant business the restaurant owner cleans the dishes not the customers.”

The younger girl would clean the dishes while the older girls would go their own way and play thereby further excluding the young girl from their activities.

That sounds like a good game, however, this older sister did not play by the entire rules of the restaurant business. Everyone knows that customers that don’t pay for their meals have to wash the dishes and customers who don’t wash the dishes have to pay for the meal. So it looks like the older sister owes her little sister quite a bit of money.

Let’s just say this game was played once a week for three years with the older sister and one friend. That would be 312 meals at an average of $3.50 per meal. That is a total of $1092.00. Now let’s charge 3% interest compounded daily (inflation) for approximately 25 years.

WOW!!! It appears that the older sister owes her younger sister $2,311.69 for those meals.

OK big sister now it is time to pay up (a copy of this is being sent to your younger sister for collections).