September 4. “Button, the girl at the traffic signal couldn’t have been more than 7 or 8 but took my elder daughter for a royal ride last evening when both of us were returning home.”

“How did she manage that?”

“She came and knocked on the car window and showed us a copy of the Mid-Day. My daughter promptly took the copy from her and decided to pay her a little extra money. She noticed that the girl had only one copy of the tabloid and enquired if she had sold the remaining copies. She nodded coyly.”

“What happened next?”

“I told my daughter to check the date of the newspaper and that’s when she burst out laughing!”

“Was the paper out-dated?”

“It was the previous day’s paper. Some-one must have thrown the tabloid away and she must have picked it up and sold it to us for a cool ten bucks. I was dumbstruck at her ingenuity and spunk.”

“She’s street-smart.”

“The reason why we took pity on her was the fact that she was 7 or 8 but had the face of a 40-year woman.”

“That’s sad.”