Economics

Yesterday’s corner time: 2 Minutes.

I’ve noticed that my Dad has been very busy lately, working long hours late into the night.

As well as restricting my access to the computer it has also meant that we haven’t been able to spend much time together.

After I hadn’t seen him all day yesterday, I decided that enough was enough. I marched upstairs to his office and demanded an audience.

He said that he was very busy but that a window of opportunity may open up between 7:00pm and 7:10pm. Either that or I could email him.

I said that this just wasn’t good enough and that he had to see me now. Dad then picked me up and sat me on his knee. Apparently, it was time that I learnt a little bit about economics.

I prayed that this wasn’t going to be like the talk that my friend Charlie had with his parents after asking them where he came from. That didn’t sound very nice at all. Dad has always said that I had been given away free with a packet of cornflakes at Walmart. That was good enough for me.

Luckily, economics was all about money and toys. Two of my favourite subjects although I’m not quite sure what money is.

Dad explained that he had to work to earn money. The money paid for my house, my food, my clothes, my toys and my sweets. If he didn’t work hard, then he wouldn’t be paid and I’d have to make do without toys and sweets.

Dad said that he understood that I might prefer to spend more time with him than have lots of toys.

What! Is he kidding? Of course I wouldn’t want less toys. I made this pretty clear to him and then queried if he had enough time to be sitting around chatting with me. After all, we can't have him distracted from the important business of earning me more toys.

Matthew.