Neil Patel

Why?

Why should I give you $3 when I can give someone else $2?

So I would say to my son, if he asked me for $3, you say you want $3, but if I can convince your sister to give it to me for $2, I have someone else who's willing to do it for the same amount, so why should I pay you $3?

So then he would have to make a pitch.

And he makes pitches all the time.

So, for example, yesterday my son, when we were counting his money, wanted to turn in $50 of quarters for a $50 bill.

Ali had a $100 bill.

I started exchanging them for smaller bills because I use them for valet.

I'm not the best at parallel parking the minivan.

And as you know, in LA, there's a lot of parallel parking.

So I just tend to valet most times so I don't hit cars.

And when I was exchanging the money, he said, hey, you took more.

And I'm like, no, I didn't steal any money from you.

It's even.

We went through, we counted a few times, just to double check.

And then he said,

I'm doing you a favor because I picked his small bills.

He wanted to give me some of the bigger ones, like 20s.

I wanted more of like the fives and tens and ones.

And he said, because I'm doing you a favor, I want two extra dollars.