NO CREDIT CARDS BUT TRUST!
In the very old times when there were trustworthy
relations among people, money was something not needed urgently. I was a child
in a small village in Yalova where there were younger children in my territory
since I was the leader and trustful one. If someone needed something, he/she
would call me and tell their wishes from the grocery to fetch. The little cute
grocers were the only shopping place of the village. You could find every
detail in one small shop. Grocers were a tradition that you could tell from
nation to nation.
Today I want to tell you a story about a paying style
that is special to the grocers. I looked it up in the dictionary as to find the
word. The word that I found was “buy on tick”. I mean you buy a material and
you have no money but you pay it later. Credit cards play the role of this
method now but when you have a credit card, you should pay it on time. There are
some procedures and processes. But this method was a very trustworthy one even
today in small cities we use this method when both the salesman and the
customer know each other well. For ex. Maybe they are relatives and
well-acquainted. This may seem a bit different and odd to you in the 21st
century because it is hard to believe what if the customer doesn’t pay it or
how does the salesman can buy goods for his grocery. These are complicated at
first. You will read through my story how it goes on.
There was an aunt in our village. She was the woman
that gave her milk (breast-feeding) to my daddy when my daddy was a baby. This was a tradition. We
can see it as half- mother of my daddy. We respect upon her and she lives very
close to us just opposite. Her husband was retired during my childhood. This couple
had four children and all of them were married and living different cities. They were alone and we
were like their grandchildren especially me!! J they had small incomes as the pension was not high
but regular. They were always buying their needs from the grocery with the
method I have mentioned at the top. “buy on tick” . Every day the Aunt called
me and wanted me to get their needs from the grocery. They had a small black
covered notebook. I used to take it and go to the grocery for example “a loaf
of bread and a kilo of sugar”. The grocer wrote down on my notebook how many I had
taken and also wrote down on his own notebook the same.
My Aunt sometimes used
to tell me if you wanted something from the grocer like chocolate or gums as a
reward, I could tell the grocer to write their notebook. But when I was a
child, this was impossible. We were not the ones that can tell their wishes
easily. We were warned not to want anything from someone. Nowadays I see that
little children can easily get what they want. We were even ashamed of getting
what is ours. So I was totally committed to my mission and I was very proud of
this.
One day I noticed that some children came to the
grocer to buy some tea but they wanted to buy it on tick. Their appeal failed with
an angry response. The grocer said “ don’t you see the sign! Here it writes “WE
DON’T SELL ON TICK”. Oh! I was shocked to see that sign as I was going there
with the same response and got what my aunt wanted. At that moment I hid my
notebook when they went out, I told my
aunt’s daily needs. But I was confused! What was the difference between them
and me?
I went home to tell my mom the whole story. She said
that if the grocer doesn’t trust someone, he doesn’t sell anything on tick. I got
it then why the grocer told something like that and why the grocer never ever
gave me angry response!!:) J
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