Melomiri

No One Touches My Girl

Language: en

To help organize the spring field trip for my daughter’s first-grade class, I called in a favor from an old college friend and secured an insider rate of eighty dollars per person at an organic eco-farm. It was half the standard commercial price. Yet the moment I posted the details in the class parent group, I was accused of taking a kickback. Rick Henderson, one of the fathers, immediately jumped in: "I just saw a Groupon for another farm at twenty-nine ninety! What kind of shady racket are you running asking for eighty bucks? Profiteering off our own kids—are you that desperate for…

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