Today was a very fun day for work because my mission was to go out and find us a Christmas tree for our room at school. It was supposed to be a Charlie Brown Christmas tree. (This is particularly funny because I work at a school of millionaire children.)
"I need the ugliest cheapest tree you have." That is what I told the man.
This is where the story gets good. Apparently the going rate for a regular Christmas tree is in the neighborhood of $50. For an ugly cheap tree, it is $25. I thought that was a little much for the worst tree on the lot, so I asked if he had anything else.
He sure did.
He sold me half of a Christmas tree for $5. The bottom half. Apparently someone bought the original tree but did not want the bottom. So, thanks to me, we have the bottom half of a Christmas tree in our room at school. It makes me smile.
2 comments:
That is so very funny.
my first year of clbi, some guys went out into the woods and cut down a tree for the cafeteria. It was the ugliest tree I have ever seen. To makematters worse, it was too big for the height of the ceiling, so they CUT THE TOP OFF!! That was the saddest tree I have ever seen, for sure.
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