After getting married, I went straight to maternity leave. Three years passed, my son goes to kindergarten, so I decided to start my own business. I opened a women’s clothing store in the market.
– This is stupid – this is the phrase I heard from all sides. Not one day consulted with my husband, how to properly organize everything – he supported me. By education I am a nurse, at my previous job received a minimum wage, so this business would in any case would have given more profit.
In our city it was quite expensive to rent premises, but I found a fairly acceptable option and plunged myself into my own business. First I took a loan, took out all the necessary documents and now I have my own little store in a shopping center.
I sell on my own from morning till night. My mother-in-law helps me with my daughter. My Mary has been sick very often, especially in the winter season, and there is no opportunity to go on sick leave, although she is her own boss…
– Offer your brother’s fiancee to work for you – my mother told me two years ago.
– Mom, – I say – now I myself am working almost no profit, and Lisa will need to pay a monthly salary. But actually there was another reason: taking relatives to work is a failure, and I did not like her as a person at all.
– You could tell from her that she was very sneaky!” – I told my husband.
The other day we were discussing a mutual acquaintance who was caught on a bribe, and she said: well done, woman, it’s a pity she was caught.
– And we came to visit you today, – my relative looked into my store with the stroller, – we were buying Denis a suit and decided to visit her aunt at the same time.
I amused myself with the toddler and exchanged a few words with Lisa. Then her eyes fell on one dress: – Oh, I’ve always dreamed of such a dress. I can not clean up after the pregnancy, my old clothes are too small, and I soon go to the wedding to go to a friend. My mom has volunteered to babysit my grandson. I wish it was my size, I would have taken it.
– I have your size,” I said, “I can bring them over and try them on. The other sizes I have in the back, and in the hall hang the most popular, 44 or 46. Lisa after the birth of a child put on weight, she will fit 50, and I had it.
– Bring it! – My brother’s wife exclaimed, – She came out with shining eyes in the hall, and the color and style suited her. – How much does it cost? – Lisa asked when she saw the price tag, – Very expensive!
– I’ll sell you at the purchase price, – I said, – cheaper exactly what I can not.
– I can’t buy it even at the purchase price, I don’t have that kind of money now. Your brother and I have a mortgage to pay. All right, I’ll do without the new dress this time.
I think Lisa was hoping I’d give her this dress as a gift, but I don’t have a way to give gifts like that right now, either.
Lisa looked at a few more dress options and grabbed her stroller and headed home because Timur needs to cook his meal.
I sat down and started doing calculations – I can’t take my granddaughter from kindergarten today, my mother-in-law called a few days later, – I have a very bad headache, probably for the change of weather. I have already made arrangements with your mother, she will take Pauline and bring her to her.
My mother lived next to my store, but somehow it so happened that my husband’s mother spent more time with my daughter.
– Here we are,” I heard on the doorstep at almost 6 p.m., “when do you close?
There was a customer in the store, so I asked my mom and Mary to come in the back. I usually closed the store at 7 p.m.
– I’ll go now,” Mom came out about 5 minutes later, “Mary is sitting there painting and I have to bake pies, I have some dough at home in there.
The weekend passed and my mother called on Monday and offered to bring her granddaughter from kindergarten herself: – I called my mother-in-law, she was already aware of it. I was very surprised, because my mother is very difficult, and then she volunteered.
– No, I won’t take it, – the client came out of the fitting room on Tuesday with a dissatisfied face. – Size did not come up? – I asked. – No, the size is perfect, but this dress is worn. My armpits just unbearable stink of someone else’s deodorant, and the stains are all over the length.
I apologized to the customer and realized that in a small town it is very easy to lose reputation and clientele. And then I started putting the puzzles together in my head. Lisa’s refusal to buy even though she liked the dress, my mother, who brought her granddaughter and then quickly ran away. A second visit from my mom on Monday “just for fun.”
– I’ll be honest, I took the dress,” my mother admitted. Lisa didn’t have any clothes at all.
– Did she ask you to do that?
– Well, I agreed to it, especially since I only needed an outfit for one night.
– And so what? – Lisa answered me, – So everyone is doing!
– You can understand, – I said – that you set me up in the eyes of the client. I care about the reputation of my store!
– So what. It was your mother took the dress, then deal with her!
I understand that my mother wanted to help Lisa, but not this way!
– I’ll pay you back for it,” said my mother.
Yes, I took the money and gave the dress to my mother. That same evening my brother called me and said that I was ripping off our mother.
– Take and give the money for the dress your wife wore to the wedding! – I said, -why should I suffer?
Now I will have sanctions against my own relatives: they can not go into the store. Let them buy clothes in other stores.
