Shoemaker

The new shoes were paid for with time itself.

Two women came this day, in search of an artisan to make them a pair of shoes from scratch.

Not just repair some cheaply-made shoes, but to get a proper pair of hand-crafted, custom-fit, proper shoes.

Price was no object.

The shoemaker took the measurements of the younger lady's feet.

"Two weeks." He quoted them.

"And if we work as apprentices?"

"Two years. No cost for the shoes as you will earn them."

So they paid him in time.

And it only took them an afternoon for the shoes.

But added years to the life of the old shoemaker...