America 1979

Chapter 20 Petty Dorothy
Neo has no right to speak about money matters. The little money he usually earns from neighbors is handed over to his aunt or sister. Therefore, when his brothers and sisters talk about money, he who sits in the back has no say. say a word.

Dorothy didn't say a word, presumably she couldn't refute her brother, but she felt sorry for the ten dollars.

After the atmosphere was silent for a long time, she choked out the following sentence: "We shouldn't go out to eat this meal. We make noodles at home. Sixty dollars can last us for weeks."

Bill Yile, "With your handsome brother here, the rich days will be like Louis XVI, with no end in sight."

After Bill made a lot of money later, Dorothy might change her mentality.

"What does Louis XVI mean? Is it a code?" The girl asked, not understanding what her brother meant.

"It's literally, you can't see the end at a glance." Bill responded.

Dorothy thought for a long time before she understood what her brother meant.

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After turning left and right for nearly an hour, they finally arrived at their destination, a second-hand store called "Hoffmann von".

This is not a Chinese community, so the owner or founder of the shop should have German descent.

After parking the car casually in the open space on both sides of the street, Bill led his younger siblings into the store aggressively.

Because the land is sparsely populated, most areas in the United States do not charge parking fees, except for big cities such as New York, and in this era, only Manhattan in the center of New York charges. In other areas, as long as parking is not near a fire hydrant, no parking fee is charged. What concerns.

After entering the store and taking a few casual glances, Bill knew that he had come to the right place. The entire second-hand store took up a huge area, comparable to a shopping mall. In terms of weak electrical equipment area, strong electrical equipment area, clothing area, sneaker equipment area, furniture area, Books, newspapers and periodicals are arranged in categories.

If not all the products are piled up on the big boxes placed one by one, Bill would really have a feeling of going to the supermarket.

After telling Dorothy and Neo to pick out a gift for uncle and aunt, he went straight to the sneaker equipment area. He has to go to class tomorrow, and he is so tired today. It is reasonable to hurry up and go back to rest after buying.

Then it was time to dig for gold in shit. When Bill picked out a helmet, he didn't feel it. He just picked a pair of comfortable large helmets. When he picked out second-hand shoes, his filter for this second-hand store was shattered.

According to his teammates' instructions, he went to pick out the football shoes that suit him, and before he got close, a pungent smell came over, like fermented rotten fruit wrapped in excrement, mixed with rotten wood The taste is much more lethal than stinky tofu.

While pinching his nose, Mr. Ferrari searched for a long time before finding a pair of sneakers that fit him.

After trying it on and finding that it didn't squeeze his feet, Bill hurriedly stayed away from this area. It was really horrible. He was afraid that he would stay any longer, and the dinner worth tens of dollars tonight would be for nothing.

After that, I carefully selected all kinds of protective gear. Fortunately, they were all put together. The most important anti-collision liner and hard shoulder armor. Butt pads, etc., I just bought second-hand goods that fit my body type.

Of course, Bill didn't forget to buy gym shorts and T-shirts, as well as a set of tracksuits to change into.

Although Bill only picked out the things he needed, he couldn’t take them out after a while. Fortunately, there was no one in the second-hand store. His brother Neo saw his brother holding a bunch of things from a distance and pushed a shopping cart from the store door. It made Bill less flustered.

For Dorothy, she only picked presents for her uncle and aunt. The one for her uncle was a solid woolen suit, which is best worn in autumn and winter.

She deliberately chose a low-saturation brown style. Pure black and navy blue are too bright for Italian immigrants of my uncle's age.

My aunt's gift was a pair of black ladies' leather shoes that looked brand new, and a bottle of commoner's perfume that I used once or twice after opening.

Bill nodded, and Dorothy put her heart into choosing the presents. Given the relationship between them and the uncle and his wife, it is natural that they don't need to give first-hand things to fill their heads, and it is more practical to give newer second-hand goods.

"Choose a few more clothes and shoes for you and Neo! Buy a small gift for Anthony by the way."

Bill knew that his sister was reluctant to spend money, so he didn't choose clothes for himself, but he had more than 800 yuan on him, and this set of second-hand football protective gear was three or four hundred dollars, and there was still a lot left. Wear new clothes.

"I don't..."

Dorothy thought that she would lose a lot of money tonight, so she decided not to mention buying clothes for herself, but her brother pushed her to the clothing area, and Neo followed behind with a shopping cart. brother and sister.

After careful selection for a while, in the voice of Dorothy complaining about her brother's extravagance, two pullovers, a pair of light blue jeans, a knitted cardigan and matching white shirt were added to the shopping cart, for Neo's It is a gray baseball uniform, black sports trousers, and a cardigan sweater with a hood.

As for Anthony, Bill chose a gray wide-brimmed hat for him, a suit, a black coat, a red scarf, and a wide-brimmed hat. This can be said to be the standard outfit of an Italian gangster.

Mr. Ferrari believes that his cousin must like this big man's hat.

When the clerk was counting the goods and fiddling with the calculator to calculate the money, Dorothy's complaints also reached their peak, but Bill selectively filtered them out.

Including excise tax, the total came to $560, four dollars and eight cents, which Bill settled in cash on the spot.

The consumption tax in the United States is generally paid by the customer himself. When paying, the tax rate is multiplied by the selling price, and it is paid to the clerk together with the purchase price.The consumption tax rate varies from state to state, and you can choose to receive the goods by mail, so that the consumption tax will be paid at the tax rate of the place of receipt. The Bill family can't leave New York anyway, so they just pick up the goods and leave on the spot.

What he didn't expect was that the rugby protective gear is a sporting goods, and it is actually a federal consumption tax. The tax rate of 11.00% is still very distressing. The rest of the clothes are also subject to a comprehensive consumption tax of [-]%.

The [-]% comprehensive consumption tax rate is divided into two parts, the state consumption tax rate is [-]%, and the rest is the local consumption tax rate.

On the way back, Dorothy also chattered all the way, saying that her brother didn't know how to save money, that the family had no money, and that her uncle and aunt were also working hard.

It wasn't until after she got home that Dorothy went upstairs to change into new jeans, a white shirt and a knitted cardigan, that she stopped criticizing her brother for his extravagance.

"My sister looks much more fashionable." Little Neo didn't care about the new clothes, so he didn't change them tonight.

Bill took a closer look, and indeed she looked like a student, without the lifeless gray and black clothes she wore before.

"Tsk tsk tsk, who said I spent money lavishly?"

Mr. Farrari sucked his mouth and said something strange, and then went to take a bath and go to bed.

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