Comments on: Kids Cutting Grass?

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:00:29 +0000

I started cutting neighbor lawns for money when I was eight years old, using an old rotary blade push mower (not a power mower) in 1962. I’d walk with it for six or eight blocks to one of my customers, spend an hour or so, collect my dollar and fifteen cents, then walk home.

Of course, I cut lawns barefoot because as soon as school was out, the shoes came off. It was summer, for crying out loud! It’s handy to cut lawns barefoot, because if the blades get stuck, you can free them by grabbing them with your toes without having to bend over. (And yes, I have all my toes.)

It’s a shame that we allow 20 million illegal immigrants to take all the jobs that we kids used to do. How else will kids afford their own libraries of Hardy Boys books and comic books?

By: Chris C.

Chris C. — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:23:58 +0000

I did the same kind of work in the 60s, plus sold stuff door to door (flower seeds, Christmas cards, candy, whatever). I don’t see any teens mow lawns in our neighborhood (not even their own, mostly). Selling door to door is frowned upon for adults, much less children (I did that age 12-15). I sure didn’t wear protective eyewear or anything else that could be labeled protective. And here I am, fat and sassy, dissing all the sissies that obsess about extremely low-probability “hazards”. Let kids be kids, and tell the nannies to MYOB.

By: Tschafer

Tschafer — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:42:15 +0000

Why aren’t these kids getting jobs as unpaid interns for an NGO? We all know that’s the only acceptable job for young people these days.

Good Lord…