It was an ordinary afternoon in a luxury New York City building. An elderly woman stepped into the elevator, holding her purse close, moving slowly but confidently. The elevator doors were just about to close when a young, stylish woman rushed in, filling the small space with a strong cloud of expensive perfume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She glanced at the older woman with a proud smile and said loudly, \u201cRalph Lauren\u2019s Romance<\/em>. $150 an ounce.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The elderly woman said nothing. She simply nodded politely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the next floor, another elegant young woman stepped in. She took one look at the older lady, then at the first woman, and decided to join the unspoken competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With a confident tilt of her head, she announced, \u201cChanel No. 5. $200 an ounce.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two younger women exchanged satisfied looks, clearly impressed with themselves. The elevator continued its quiet climb as the elderly woman stood calmly between them, saying nothing, her expression unreadable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Three floors later, the elevator stopped. The doors opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The elderly woman slowly stepped forward, then paused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She turned around, looked both women straight in the eye\u2026 and let out a loud, unmistakable sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then she smiled sweetly and said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBroccoli. 49 cents a pound.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And with that, she walked out, leaving the elevator \u2014 and the two stunned women \u2014 completely silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes, confidence doesn\u2019t come in a bottle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was an ordinary afternoon in a luxury New York City building. An elderly woman stepped into the elevator, holding her purse close, moving slowly but confidently…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7945,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944\/revisions\/7945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}