Tenth Post

To continue on my train of thought... When the Great Brain leaves, his younger brother, J.D., decides to model himself after the Great Brain. His logic behind this decision is that his brother swindled almost everybody in town, most of all his younger sibling. Therefore, with the Great Brain gone, J.D. has the most experience in swindling people. When Tom leaves, he offers to let J.D. Use his bike for a nickel a week. JD decides to take his brother on his proposition. He figures that he can rent the bike out to kids around town and pay his brother and still have time to ride it. Wow! Does this backfire on him! So he ends up renting it out every weekend to a kid who uses it to get a job. Then that kid gets a bike and rents it for less. On top of it all, that kid wears down the tires, so J.D. has to pay 3 bucks for new tires! He ends up loosing a lot of money. There are moral lessons in this event. Such as, don't rent someone else's property. Also, don't rent something out unless you know that the rent will cover all the costs.