Olive (named for the fruit) is in eighth grade. She's a very
good inventor. For the science fair, Olive developed a simple
device that allows students, each morning, to pre-select lunch
items, ensuring each student's preference is available in the
lunch line later that day. It's a simple-looking machine that
the school ended up placing in the lobby for actual student
use.
And the kids loved it. Everyone pre-selected lunch. Why not?
Here's the trouble: Olive was secretly in cohoots with a
lunch vendor (her aunt Clementine-also named for the fruit) so that
students could only pre-select items made in Clementine's own
kitchen! The device simply did not present other vendors' items
as options! The result: Clementine's sales soared, her prices
went unchecked and kids didn't have the pre-selection choices
they should have had.
