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Supply, Demand and Price<br />
1. Price and the Consumer<br />
MAN: Best steak again<br />
WOMAN: Best steak again. I mean what else<br />
MAN: I know. Who’d have thought it<br />
WOMAN: Who would have thought what<br />
MAN: Well, all that time ago who would have thought we’d be doing well enough today to eat steaks<br />
WOMAN: …or to be able to count the profits.<br />
MAN: Exactly. Do you remember the day things were so bad, we began to think we might take a break<br />
from making clothes to sell in the market, and turn to something else They were hard times. There was<br />
no steak in those days. Best end of bone if we were lucky. Alright, dear, off we go then.<br />
WOMAN: Oh, it’s true. I remember it just like it was yesterday. I had a feeling it was a dreadful<br />
mistake to give up on the weaving business- even if it was only for a short time.<br />
MAN: Well, nobody was buying your shawls. Things looked black. It was either starve or change.<br />
WOMAN: So we changed. Oh, it had been a dreadfully hard day in the woods that day, looking for<br />
mushrooms and plums.<br />
MAN: Well, that’s why I gave you the mushrooms to pick. Mushrooms are lighter than plums.<br />
WOMAN: Yeah, but there were 10 times more mushrooms than plums.<br />
MAN: Ha! Ha! Odd that, wasn’t it<br />
WOMAN: Uneven, I’d call it!<br />
MAN: But what a time I had in the market that day! Who would have thought a few plums would cause<br />
all that trouble “Get your lovely plums! Here they are; they’re lovely! Oh, well done, thank you very<br />
much. Have a nice day. Thank you. Well done….lovely. Oh…hey…hold on! Hold on!” How was I to<br />
know, everybody was sick and tired of the glut of apples, and that mine were the only plums on the<br />
market “Ow!”<br />
WOMAN: Get off him, you bully!<br />
MAN: Wasn’t as though I was overcharging. Oww, oww! Mine were exactly the same price as Mr. and<br />
Mrs. Farmer used to charge when they had lots of plums. Oww…oww!<br />
WOMAN: You could have heard a pin drop at my end of the stall- it was so quiet. Everybody seemed<br />
sick to death of mushrooms. You’d have thought they had a bad smell- the way people kept away from<br />
them. But they were lovely mushrooms.<br />
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