Life after payment

In Tegucigalpa (Honduras) you will find individuals in the stop lights try to make a living by selling you some sort of product or service. In other occasions you will find kids asking for one Lempira* or any kind help. Its common to find kids offering to clean your windshield in exchange for some change.

Couple of weeks ago  some teens where doing some tricks with fire and other kids where cleaning the windshields. One of the last ones offered his services and gave him “one lempira” and told him the front was clean. He responded that he will clean the back and I told him not to worry. The interesting part was that he insisted to clean the back window, even when traffic advanced and stop 30 meters from the starting point. So, I agreed and proudly he clean the back.

What made this event stick to my head and ponder on the convection of the kid to not receive money for free, but do some work in exchange. In contrast when you buy a service or product from companies today, they tend to not be so eager to make your money worth. Once they see the money, they just relax while the customer stress up because its not receiving what it paid for.

More interesting is that a kid in the streets thought  me two things: something about business and that everybody has something to teach you.

*Lempira is the currency of Honduras