Secret Socrates Interaction

I attempted to apply the secret of socrates method over the break and struck out several times with friends and customers. It wasn't until I tried it on the ever reliable person in my life, my Mom. On occassion she and I will have dinner or she will stop by my place and chat. Well, a lot of times she asks me about my finances and I always complain about dry-cleaning and how expensive it is. I followed up by saying how I enjoyed the times when she would do my laundry and iron my pants. Pants are more expensive then the shirts for the record, almost twice as much at most dry-cleaners. Anyways, so she responded "yes, I bet it was nice for you and I really didn't mind the ironing because it allows me be active during Oprah." Ofcourse, I laughed and went right into how much money it saves me if she were to iron my pants. Well, that was pretty much the end of it. Until Friday, when she asked me what my plans were for the weekend. I told her that I was going to be in the neighborhood, so she told me to throw my dry-cleaning in the car and she would iron whatever pants I needed done for the following work week. In the end, she saved me more than $40 because I accumulated about a dozen pairs of pants to be ironed over the past month and she did them all.