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"And Paul still has to pay you. Here's yours and your brother's money, but it's all I have. So no more. Something still doesn't seem quite fair."
"Of course it's fair. Peter and I got our money back, and Paul got new boots. Everyone's happy."
"I suppose, it still seems off, somehow though."
"You're imagining things."
Paul comes home from work and says, "Hey Peter I snapped of one my bootlaces, can you spare me a buck until payday?"
Peter, "No can do bro. Everything I've got is tied up. I'm out of the money lending business. I had to sell your debt to Morgan for half price so I could make it. Maybe you can go to Mom and Dad."
Morgan, "Nope I talked to them already. They're all tapped out, from covering the boot fiasco."
"The boot fiasco?"
"Yeah. If you hadn't bought the boots, then Peter and I wouldn't have had to lend you our money. Then Mom and Dad wouldn't have had to pay for your bad debt."
"Bad debt? I needed it for work. You know that. What am I supposed to do until the end of the month?"
"That's your problem. I mean I've got twenty dollars now, but you seem like a risk to me. I mean you never paid me the twenty you already owe me."
"Owe you. I only owe you ten. I owe Peter ten, but that's still only ten to you."
"Yes, but Peter sold me the ten you owed him, so now you owe me twenty for your oh so precious boots. You can't ask Mom and Dad for more because their tapped out."
"You said that you have twenty. Where'd you get it? You don't have a job, and you already "bought up" all of the "debt" I owed Peter at half off. So where'd you get the money?"
"Mom and Dad gave ten to Peter and ten to me to cover you boot loan."
Peter, "Wait a second. I didn't get any money from Mom and Dad."
