The clerks, Mike figured, should be instructed that if a kid comes up a few cents short they dip into a penny jar and help out. Toys R Us didn t go the extra mile for Mike, so he decided to reciprocate. Tom and Mike checked the computer inventory and found 10 shares of Toys R Us, in with some other natural kid stocks like Coca-Cola, Disney and Microsoft. Okay, said Mike, let s unload the Toys R Us shares and buy Microsoft. The next day, Mike phoned the family broker and made the trade.
Timing is everything.
At that age, sighs father Shess, I would have been wondering how to grip a baseball for a curve, or debating whether to get another crew cut or let my hair grow long. After Mike s big stock transaction, he says, the conversation ended when I asked Mike to program the VCR so we could record the Padres game and watch PBS at the same time. He ordered the sausage pizza. At a chic summer party, a Point Loma matron walked into a conversation between two doctors discussing the use of vitamin E to slow brain-cell loss in Alzheimer s patients. Well, I ve been using vitamin E cream on my face for years, the woman interjected.