My son, the dealmaker

Picking him up from school today:

Me: Peering into his bookbag and finding an untouched lunch. "So, I see you didn't eat any of your lunch today."

TheBigE: "Oh, well I had mini-corndogs today."

Me: "Corndogs?"

TheBigE: "Yeah, see....remember my mints? Well I traded them for my friend's hot lunch mini-corndogs. They're cool."

Me: Looking back into the bookbag and seeing the mint container still there "Then what's with this???" pulls mint cannister out of bag with an igotcha flourish

TheBigE: "Well, I just traded the mints, not the container. I wanted to keep that."

Sure enough, the tin was empty and some poor kid is walking around with fifty breathmints in his pocket and no corndogs in his belly.

He gets it from his father's side, I swear.