Durians

You know, in the fruit store, you get to see alot of interesting people. Once Alyce and myself wanted One durian for supper. If you are a durian or fresh food person, you know the best stuff comes when they open the durian right in front of you.

When I was at the durian store, its was late and the durian seller had lots of durian he opened up and kept in boxes. He was selling them at a discount of 3 boxes for $20. The unopened ones are at $10 per fruit.

The fruit seller was trying to pursude us to get the open boxed durians "at a discount" at $20, twice more durians than we wanted at additional $10. We kept insisting we just ones the unopened ones and we only need one durian as we are unable to finish the other 2 boxes.

We are like that, we know what we want and a discount will not tempt us as we end up spending more money but we do not need the extras. We aren't greedy and calculative and the durian seller failed at pushing us his unsold wares.

We end up going to another durian store instead and spend $15 at one better durian. We fail to understand the logic of wanting more when you do not need to. Sometimes the real value of money is getting a better product not getting the most of the product.