The Scheming Child

My younger boy is only 9 years old and that little fellow already has a little sleazy massage parlour business going on. Yes, you read right. He's running his own little massage parlour though it's far from sleazy ... LOL!


He's had this business going ever since he knew he could capitalize on some pretty good profits out of me. Yes, I'm his number one customer ... well, I'm his only customer too most of the time. His mommy sometimes uses his massage services and he makes quite a good sum out of it as well.

You see, whenever we're in the hall watching TV, I'm always complaining to wifey that my feet hurt and I have aches here and there and this little enterprising young fellow is always within earshot. So one day, when I told wifey my feet hurts and I could do with a good feet massage, my son came up to me and said,

'Wanna urut (massage)?'

Now how could I say no to free massage right. So I said, sure, why not. That's when the cheeky little fellow ran upstairs and came down with his 'price list' stating how much each massage service cost! Both wifey and me had this look of incredulity on our faces. I took the list and he really had different prices for different areas of the body.

There was the feet massage which cost RM1.00 for 10 minutes, then there was the whole leg massage which cost RM2.00 for 10 minutes, the hand massage, the shoulder massage and also the head and neck massage. By this time both wifey and me were snickering away at his home made price list.

The little fellow even had discounts for certain days and even free foot massages if the massage fell within a certain time period on a certain day. Don't ask me why, maybe at that particular time and day he's just in a more generous mood ... hehehe.

And he does a pretty good job of massaging too. His small little fingers are just perfect for massaging my achy feet and the pressure he applies is just perfect. He's made quite a bit of profit out of wifey and me already. And his prices are so much cheaper than those you see at the malls, hopefully he doesn't notice that and start increasing his prices ... LOL!

That boy really amazes me with his schemes at times. I wonder what ingenious business idea he'll come up with next. Car washing services? Maybe selling replica watches? I wouldn't be surprised if one fine day he comes running down with a price list for a new business scheme of his ... LOL!
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