Selling Door To Door

Do you remember being an optimistic fifth-grader, selling door to door? Flower seeds? Candy bars? Potato chips? House plants? Tickets to the fifth-grade Thanksgivings feast? Adding up the prizes in your head. If we sell $300 worth of merchandise, we would win a radio, and a cassette player. If we sell $200 we could at least get the cassette player. If we sell $100 worth we will earn a sweatshirt, which we will have to share, My sister and I, Not fair, as I am Out here selling, While she is inside Eating peppermint ice cream. We are going to be millionaires Someday, selling door to door. I start dreaming of the money we will make. If we make a dollar a week, in a year, we will have $52 dollars. Fifty-two dollars, a fortune in the 60’s to a fifth-grader. Not such a big deal to the fifth-graders of today. A mere fifty-two dollars? How many sacks of groceries will it buy? Possibly one. And who wants children selling door to door? There are things behind those doors I had no idea about, when I was a child. I wish I could still be ignorant about that.