FREE STUFF

Moving away from the frozen treat dispensers and into the store, the first thing Wilson noticed was a display of Shopping Bags, Pencils and Tape Measures.

Pointing to them, he asked me, 'Are those things free, New Dad? They're not priced.' 

I explained that the shopping bags were to use just while we shopped and had to be handed back at the checkout but, I supposed, the pencils and tape measures were, in a sense, free.

'Woah!' he exclaimed, climbing onto a stack of chairs and helping himself to a pawful of pencils and tape measures, 'I'll be able to start an on-line Pencil and Tape Measure Shop!'

I shook my head ruefully as he continued, 'I shall call it "Pencils and Tape Measures R Us!"'