The start of the recession came with a lesson. One that didnt let me buy into the hype that we were gonna go through the most difficult time in our history. I still don't buy it. You see during the time when every news broadcast was moaning over how bad things were becoming, a little girl was gearing up to teach me a thing or two about what life had to offer if I was willing to pay attention.
The building I live in houses five apartments on each floor for a total of twenty on my side and another twenty across the courtyard. Im not telling you this for you to find where I live Im telling you so that you understand just how many people this little girl of no more than nine or ten was able to convince that there was no recession where her business is concerned!!!
Dina is the middle of three girls. Her older sister a more quiet and shy young girl was maybe two years older and the younger is now just turning two. Dina was always in trouble, even before her younger sister came along and it was constant! It seemed there was never anything that gave her, or her parents, or her and her parents peace at any given time (heck there still isn't but i digress).
I overheard a huge fight on my way in from work and Dina and her mother in and out the apartment were trying to come to an agreement. A few days later a sign was on the door. Now this sign was made on the same construction paper that we all used in elemantary school. Yeah, you know the one that came in all the colors and fade with the sun or the semester or in the back of the car or sometimes its seemed if you stared at it too hard!
Well it was on this paper that there was a primitive drawing and writing denoting "Dina's Flower Shop". Also included on this sign was the special 'touch' of the baby sister who seemed to have been set loose with the marker pen. On the floor in front of the apartment was a supermarket sized paperbag, a dish towel, a cardboard box top, that also said 'Dina's Flower Shop' and a list of the flowers all priced at 5 cents.
