Sending the 12 year old out to work

[scoutmom]

My son David (Jerry's youngest grandson) is gainfully employed as a pooper scooper. He cleans 3 horse stalls for $20. It takes him about an hour, and he thinks he is rich! I'm proud of him, he doesn't complain, and he tries to convince his friends that,"it doesn't even stink"! Here's a link to some pictures. www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2044783&id=1189707349&l=a0b9408f64

[cbk]

Good for him. Mucking out horse stalls never hurt anyone. And he right, it doesn't smell bad. ;D

[jb]

As my wife told me that lived on farms and own 2 horses before I met her, that it is the 'million dollar' smell! Of course referring to racehorses, etc.

[jerry]

Atta boy, David. Pawpaya is proud of you. Hey, can you loan me some money?

[gloria]

That's great Dawn. It's good for them to earn money. One of my grandson does chores for other people to earn some spending money.

[kpolk]

Good for him! That will serve him well later in life. One of my teenage jobs was cleaning out chicken houses after a batch of chickens had gone to their reward. I don't care what you say, that did stink. Another job was going in and catching those chickens and putting them in those old wooden chicken coops and loading them on a truck.

This was back before they invented Mexicans and poor white kids had to do it.

[H Abiff]

Thats great and good money too. At 12 I was loading manure wagons for a farm at a quarter a load. Bare feet worked best as you could wash your feet but the shoes would still stink. Yep big city Yankee. We were as country as the South.

[scoutmom]

Dec 12, 2009 13:29:11 GMT -5 jerry said:

Atta boy, David. Pawpaya is proud of you. Hey, can you loan me some money?

Should I tell you his first reaction? It was NOPE! Then he started thinking up all sorts of deals to make with you. I'm telling you, he is a hoot!

[scoutmom]

Dec 12, 2009 18:20:30 GMT -5 kpolk said:

This was back before they invented Mexicans and poor white kids had to do it.

That's funny...

[scoutmom]

Dec 12, 2009 20:13:35 GMT -5 H Abiff said:

Thats great and good money too. At 12 I was loading manure wagons for a farm at a quarter a load. Bare feet worked best as you could wash your feet but the shoes would still stink. Yep big city Yankee. We were as country as the South.

That makes a lot of sense about the barefeet. We've done the same thing in different times. You say you were yankee....where did you grow up?

[H Abiff]

Grew up some miles outside of Binghamton New York, went to a two room six grade school.

[H Abiff]

Mexicans? The first Black person that I saw was a little girl in third grade, then four or five Black teens when they started bussing us into Binghamton schools.

[jb]

Dec 12, 2009 20:44:59 GMT -5 H Abiff said:

Grew up some miles outside of Binghamton New York, went to a two room six grade school.

H., I think I told you my wife is from around there. Her twin sister lives in that area now. I also work with a gal that was born in Binghamton. Small world indeed.

[sara]

Good for David! He'll make a fine man.

Maybe he can loan money at a nice rate of interest to folks who offer collateral.

One of our daughters always had money saved up when the rest of them were broke. She charged interest, and collected it, from the time she was ten or so. Once in high school, she loaned money to her brother money, but took his record collection for collateral. He never seemed to be able to pay her back. Fifteen or twenty years later, she wrapped his record collection and gave it to him for Christmas. And cleared the debt.

She's a pistol.

BTW, Ken. I think the chicken coop cleaning is a much worse job than horse barns.

[gloria]

Dec 14, 2009 7:03:26 GMT -5 sara said:

...........................BTW, Ken. I think the chicken coop cleaning is a much worse job than horse barns.

So do I Sara, that stuff stinks forever.