Today everybody knows me as a biggest lier in town, not only in town but across the world. I have lost a lot in business, more than many people could have thought, a man who was blessed with money from his father’s and mother’s hard work, but lost all of them in few years, all because of miss management, experience, and over confidence. When lots of money are roaming in front of your eyes your mouth speaks loud, that always happens.When all was finished I had to lie a lot to keep my business running, its completely wrong on what I am doing but no other choice. When I woke up, its already late. It took a lots of guts and heart to stand up again and say to my self, “ONE MORE ROUND. AS A BOXER ALWAYS WANTS IN THE RING, I HEAR NO BELL GIVE ME ONE MORE ROUND” and that is how I stood up again, and would like to share this experience with all of you.Today with nearly 2.8 million usd in debt I am still running my business with the hope that one day I could over come all these debt. I nearly decided to jump from building where I lived, but then on the other hand I thought, it was me who made all these mess, and if I give up my life what about the others left behind , how will they go on, I will never be able to die in peace and they would go through hell. So I got up again, put myself together, sat down looked in every details and made up my mind that I will fight this battle myself, and if my heart is clean I will win this battle.I was so scared, going to police stations, court, going through threatening phone calls, I nearly collapsed, could not eat, could not sleep, I thought about God, I never thought about him during my good days, as they always say better late than never.Today whatever I am doing I think it is like an open university of life, where I am doing my PHD. I hate accounting, I hate maths, I never took interest in studies, and I was always dreaming of becoming big. I always say to myself that one day I would be on the cover page of Times Magaznie. That dream is far aways from being true, what I have in front of me is a challenge for me. But in one conner I know that I will be able to do it.I am writing a book on this “BUSINESS LIES FOR SURVIVAL”There are lots of things that I would love to share with people that are going through all these problems like me.My motto of lifeNEVER GIVE UP, AS WE ALL ARE BORN ONLY ONCE.
Tag Archives: services
What Are The Greatest Changes In Shopping In Your Lifetime
What are the greatest changes in shopping in your lifetime? So asked my 9 year old grandson.
As I thought of the question the local Green Grocer came to mind. Because that is what the greatest change in shopping in my lifetime is.
That was the first place to start with the question of what are the greatest changes in shopping in your lifetime.
Our local green grocer was the most important change in shopping in my lifetime. Beside him was our butcher, a hairdresser and a chemist.
Looking back, we were well catered for as we had quite a few in our suburb. And yes, the greatest changes in shopping in my lifetime were with the small family owned businesses.
Entertainment While Shopping Has Changed
Buying butter was an entertainment in itself.
My sister and I often had to go to a favourite family grocer close by. We were always polite as we asked for a pound or two of butter and other small items.
Out came a big block of wet butter wrapped in grease-proof paper. Brought from the back of the shop, placed on a huge counter top and included two grooved pates.
That was a big change in our shopping in my lifetime… you don’t come across butter bashing nowadays.
Our old friendly Mr. Mahon with the moustache, would cut a square of butter. Lift it to another piece of greaseproof paper with his pates. On it went to the weighing scales, a bit sliced off or added here and there.
Our old grocer would then bash it with gusto, turning it over and over. Upside down and sideways it went, so that it had grooves from the pates, splashes going everywhere, including our faces.
My sister and I thought this was great fun and it always cracked us up. We loved it, as we loved Mahon’s, on the corner, our very favourite grocery shop.
Grocery Shopping
Further afield, we often had to go to another of my mother’s favourite, not so local, green grocer’s. Mr. McKessie, ( spelt phonetically) would take our list, gather the groceries and put them all in a big cardboard box.
And because we were good customers he always delivered them to our house free of charge. But he wasn’t nearly as much fun as old Mr. Mahon. Even so, he was a nice man.
All Things Fresh
So there were very many common services such as home deliveries like:
• Farm eggs
• Fresh vegetables
• Cow’s milk
• Freshly baked bread
• Coal for our open fires
Delivery Services
A man used to come to our house a couple of times a week with farm fresh eggs.
Another used to come every day with fresh vegetables, although my father loved growing his own.
Our milk, topped with beautiful cream, was delivered to our doorstep every single morning.
Unbelievably, come think of it now, our bread came to us in a huge van driven by our “bread-man” named Jerry who became a family friend.
My parents always invited Jerry and his wife to their parties, and there were many during the summer months. Kids and adults all thoroughly enjoyed these times. Alcohol was never included, my parents were teetotallers. Lemonade was a treat, with home made sandwiches and cakes.
The coal-man was another who delivered bags of coal for our open fires. I can still see his sooty face under his tweed cap but I can’t remember his name. We knew them all by name but most of them escape me now.
Mr. Higgins, a service man from the Hoover Company always came to our house to replace our old vacuum cleaner with an updated model.
Our insurance company even sent a man to collect the weekly premium.
People then only paid for their shopping with cash. This in itself has been a huge change in shopping in my lifetime.
In some department stores there was a system whereby the money from the cash registers was transported in a small cylinder on a moving wire track to the central office.
Some Of The Bigger Changes
Some of the bigger changes in shopping were the opening of supermarkets.
• Supermarkets replaced many individual smaller grocery shops. Cash and bank cheques have given way to credit and key cards.
• Internet shopping… the latest trend, but in many minds, doing more harm, to book shops.
• Not many written shopping lists, because mobile phones have taken over.
On a more optimistic note, I hear that book shops are popular again after a decline.
Personal Service Has Most Definitely Changed
So, no one really has to leave home, to purchase almost anything, technology makes it so easy to do online.
And we have a much bigger range of products now, to choose from, and credit cards have given us the greatest ease of payment.
We have longer shopping hours, and weekend shopping. But we have lost the personal service that we oldies had taken for granted and also appreciated.
Because of their frenetic lifestyles, I have heard people say they find shopping very stressful, that is grocery shopping. I’m sure it is when you have to dash home and cook dinner after a days work. I often think there has to be a better, less stressful way.
My mother had the best of both worlds, in the services she had at her disposal. With a full time job looking after 9 people, 7 children plus her and my dad, she was very lucky. Lucky too that she did not have 2 jobs.