I am still away from the office but I think this column from August 28th last year is apt for the period we are in as parents are busy preparing excited and not-so-excited students for the new school year.
“But mommy, I don’t like this bag. You say you would buy the other one,” an obviously distressed primary school girl said to her mother on the jam packed Regent Street pavement.
Her also obviously distressed (or was it angry) mother snapped, “I buying what I can afford, de bag you want is whole $10,000 and this one is $6,000”. Her words did not appease the little one, who was close to tears.