The compassionate pet store owner
The owner of one pet store is very, very nice to us. Always he will quote one price and I will quote another. Then he will say, “Can you not go a little higher?”I will say, “No, I cannot go higher!”
Then he will tell me that he will give the pet to me at my price provided I keep it in a very large cage. He says he will come to my house the following week to see if I have provided a large cage for it. Otherwise, he says he will take it back.
Usually he brags about his monkeys and I brag about my monkeys. Once he sold us some flying squirrels.
11 January 1982
Sri Chinmoy, Friendship with the animal kingdom, Agni Press, 2010
