That’s why I was so happy about this. I see so many spoiled kids and it really gets my goat. I had a kid that cut the grass for me every sunday last year and I paid him $20 (which is **** good money for the size of my lawn) and one day he just didn’t show and I haven’t seen him since. He was only fourteen so I know he didn’t go out and get a real job so I wonder what the heck he does with that extra hour he has on Sunday afternoons. At the very least he could’ve called me.
Also, the freakin’ kid that delivers papers next door is often a day late delivering them and his parents don’t see anything wrong with this. I asked his mom what the heck was going on and her excuse was that it rained and he had soccer. If I were that kids parent I would’ve made him miss soccer and follow through on the committment he’d made. To top it all off, the mother made a big stink 'cause I told her to send him over with my paper “NOW!”
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I remember when I was sixteen and I had about 10 lawns to cut each week but I got my first real job and I couldn’t do them all. I decided to cut my jobless friend in on some of the action and introduced him to a couple of my customers. After one day he got fired from both lawn mowing jobs! I was so embarrassed! How the heck do you get fired from mowing lawns I thought. I went down to see the job he’d done and it was an absolute mess. :lol: Lawn cuttings all over the place and he didn’t do any weed whacking. He was never taught the value of a hard days work and he’s still the same to this day.
