Posted on 07/13/2023 5:32:33 PM PDT by mowowie
Sadly, that is right.
16 and he doesn’t know how to cut grass??? I was doing that in 6th grade.
Exactly, how do they expect to start a revolution if they can’t even start a lawnmower?!
16? I was doing it at 10
Grew up on a 5-acre yard. Had to keep it mowed until I was old enough to get a summer job for pay, and handed the chore down to my younger brother.
“I mowed 4 lawns and had a paper route at 12. Beer and cigarettes weren’t cheep.”
Two lawns and a paper route for me when I was 12. Back in those days every 12-year old boy mowed a lawn or two. And these were manual push mowers; no one had a gas mower. And we edged with those rolling spike edgers; weedwackers were still many years away. Leaf Blowers? No such thing back in those days: We used rakes and brooms and shovels.
Thanks. I survived and graduated college, served for 26 years in the AF. and am now retired.
I recovered. But it busted my early dreams.
For what it’s worth, at least there’s a dad in the picture; I live across the street from a melanin abundant, single parent (baby momma) family of I think four, complete trainwreck.
He should have tried earlier ..like 16 years earlier.
It’s a electric battery mower
Even worse ..
I’m not making this up.
Looks like they both gave up and went Inside.
I made more money than I knew what to with in my early teens mowing yards in the early 80s. I mainly used the lawnmowers of the homes I was mowing to boot. Single mothers were a pushover, and once the houses with fathers saw me mowing, they were just too tempted by having me mow instead of themselves. In the summer, I was turning away business there was so much.
When I was a kid we discovered a graveyard of dead lawnmowers in the woods behind a golf driving range down the street.
By 13 I was a small engine master mechanic...
Miss those days...around 1980.
Bill Gates to the rescue. A smart mower that’s operated by the a joint venture with iphone.
Your hands weren’t tied? How were you supposed to learn?
Well, I appreciate your service, sir, from a military family. o7
God bless.
DUDE THIS NEEDS VIDEO!
My old man had me and my brother mowing a large lawn area using a old push mower in 1968, we did that taking turns for on whole summer, the next summer we had a pool, but a front lawn to mow
Plus the cost of the fake ID!
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