Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Sheep Shearing

So, I took my then 15 year old daughter to sheep shearing school at Cornell last spring so she could shear her own sheep. Bought her her own shearers for her 16th birthday. She has been shearing her flock of sheep (count at 74 right now) and getting lots of experience. So earlier this summer, we go to this Amish store near us, and my daughter notices that they have a couple of sheep that need shearing badly. So she and her dad go into the place and start talking to the owner. Say they noticed his sheep needed shearing. He tells them that he has been trying to get someone but can't get anyone to come. They say that Marie knows how to shear sheep, would he like her to do his sheep? He says yes, how much? Now my daughter (16) thinks to herself she would charge $5 a sheep. plus gas. My husband says 'how about $100?" The guy says sure, and my daughter's jaw drops. Hopefully the owner didn't notice! Anyway, we get there a month later and we start shearing the sheep and the guy asks us if we would be willing to try to shear the llamas. We said we wold try, and it took us a while, and the boy llama was a bucking bronco, but for another $100, it was worth it!!
Lesson one for business school...

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