零錢不用找了
One sweltering day, I was scooping ice cream intocones and told my four children they could "buy" acone from me for a hug. Almost immediately, thekids lined up to make their purchases. The threeyoungest each gave me a quick hug grabbed theircones and raced back outside. But when my teen-ageson at the end of the line finally got his turn to buyhis ice cream, he gave me two hugs. Keep thechanges, he said with a smile.
有一天,天氣酷熱難當,我一邊把冰激凌盛進錐筒,一邊告訴我的四個小孩,他們可以從我這里用一個擁抱“購買”一個圓筒。于是孩子們馬上排起了隊來購買。較小的三個孩子每人很快地抱了我一下,抓過冰激凌圓筒就又跑到外面去了。最后,輪到排在最后的十來歲的大兒子來“買”冰激凌了,他擁抱了我兩下。“零錢不用找了。”他笑著說。