Comparisons are Bad...

Summer camp, pool, ice-cream truck. You get the idea.

Scenario #1: Alex.
I gave Alex $5 last Thursday, for helping me with cleaning up the basement (he did a fantastic job of it!). He spent it ALL in one day, on 2 giant snicker bars from the ice-cream/candy truck that comes to the pool/camp, and 2 bottles of coke out of the vending machine, which he informed me were $1.75 each, and ate/drank them all BY HIMSELF.

Scenario #2: Jared.
I gave Jared $2 for the ice-cream truck that comes to the pool/camp. At the end of the day, I asked him what he got with his money. He happily told me that he got an ice-cream popsicle (ice-cream bar on a stick apparently makes it an ice-cream popsicle); that was $1, and it was sooooo yummy!

And, he bought a giant Twix bar for -- *drum rolls* Alex! He went on describing in detail how nice the Twix bar is, and how big it is, and how much Alex is going to enjoy it. He even put it in the fridge for Alex! Alex's new thing being freezing his chocolate bars. Alex insisted that he put it in the freezer instead of the fridge, but Jared kept saying "but Alex, it'll hurt your teeth!"

He then produced a quarter and handed it to me, stating that was the leftover change from his purchases.

Oh boy! Comparisons are bad. Comparisons are bad...