was a magnificent sand-colored rabbit in a cage placed in the garden.
This rabbit had been won by Seidou, a guard at a party organized by the school, he had found the exact weight of the animal, and Mary was 50 g. had nothing of everything. Two days later, while chatting with Seidou, I learned that thronged the rabbit more than anything else: this rabbit scared his children, he and his family do not eat rabbit and he was afraid he is carried away by a dog behind. He suggested I buy it, what we did for 3000 CFA francs (30 francs, or I'll let you calculate in euros). We bought a cage, we called in homage to Marcel Cerdan Marcel thanks to its ability to give the leg when you catch her carrot. We had thought about Muhammad Ali, but we were afraid that Muslims resent being called a rabbit Mohamed, forget not that there has not sympathetic in the corner.
Mary brought him home on foot, in a box. But Marcel is a rabbit energized and drunk with freedom. The board has begun to show signs of weakness until a passerby offers to help by taking Mary into his car for four times the price of a taxi. She declined the offer and continued his way under the dodger (he was an hour, and physically it was starting to be hard). A few meters later, two men sitting there saw that she was in pain. They did sit under a tree, gave him water (they are a little crazy, these white) and have struggled to find a box smaller and stronger, it can continue its path.
The rabbit is now in its cage. It bought a cage at the roadside, after tough negotiations, a half-hour at least, where the price was reduced by two thirds. The hardest part in the negotiation is knowing how much is what you want to buy. Sometimes you do not have any idea how much it's worth a small plastic trash? A corkscrew made in China? A kilo of tomatoes ? Then you divide the price originally given by two or four.
If the seller accepts the first price you give is that you have made yourself, but it's too late, you gave your money. If the seller does not budge an iota, even increasing its price as and when (it happened to me) is that the starting price was cheap. The rule is that you spend more time talking, the more things down, but there are exceptions. So when you discuss the price, you make two calculations simultaneously
- you converted the price. The CFA is easy, you take away two zeros and you have the price in francs. Remains to be remembering your orders ideas in francs, memories are not so far but still need to revive. Otherwise, the mandatory conversion into euros, that is to say remember his table 7.
- you do a calculation time / gain. Because if the rule is that the more time you spend, the more the price goes down, it does not say that this price drop soon. Is it really necessary to spend half an hour to earn 200 CFA francs or 2 if you followed, or 30 cents? Is it worth it to do a market study by the turn of the sellers from one end to another of the city to win 1000 AFC f?
What is certain is that in the end you will not know if you paid a good price or if you have made yourself a great big fool.
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