Are you a negotiator?
(Note: For those not in the know,this lemon-n-chilly combo is supposed to ward off bad luck) Thought for the day: There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. Do you ever stop to think – we are born negotiators? Perhaps it is because I’ve now been in the Purchase field out here since the last five years, buying everything from shoes and helmets to swimming pools, Jacuzzis, saunas and aircon equipment to name a few, but, if I put it in the perspective of our own lives, I feel this way. For example: (I’m not mentioning the normal negotiations when bargaining at shops and vegetable markets) The infant negotiates with his parents, by using his purchase skills- of crying, laughing joyously, to get his ‘milky way’, or, that sweet sounding toy. The parents do the same thing, the other way round- by offering these, err ‘things’ as a reward if the lil one says his or her first words, turns over smartly, et al. After a few months, he...