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Dang another opportunity I missed out on. I could have sped up to the outlet store an bought 'em out but no, I had to clean the stove.
It is true enough as you said earlier. DUmmies have no sense of economic reality. I was thinking about this the other day as I reflected on something a kid I grew up had said about being a paper boy. How much I learned as an independent contractor and at such an early age. As a paper boy you (and I started when I was in the third grade) had to: Learn the route and where your customers wanted their paper put, which dogs would tear your leg off and which would lap you to death, who would 'forget' to pay you on payday, and who would or would not tip you, you had to maintain records of who paid and then on payday you had to know how much you owed for the papers with any left over amount being your profit for the week.
Some weeks you might have more people 'forget'* to pay you than you paper bill would cost meaning you had to make up the difference from previous profits and tips. Some people would tip you a cookie, or apple, others only tipped at Christmas with Gingerbread Men. I still have a black bow tie I kept all these years. Black bow ties were very popular as a tip at Christmas, I collected dozens. I got to keep a penny a paper for each one delivered. I also had to pay for any spoiled.
I learned that people appreciated good service and most would pay a little extra for it. I learned that I had to budget my money for those weeks when the bag was short. I learned you had to pay your supplier first. DUmmies who never had that experience, who had everything handed to them, never got that education. I never had an allowance, sometimes my paper money went to pay the milk man. DUmmies had everything handed to them and think that is the way it should be.
*some people only got paid every two weeks. Some were forgetful, others needed the money for other things...
