Weird stuff you remember from your mis-spent yoot

[Ldub]

Here's my youth story in 1971.

I remember my friend (age 8), my brother (age 8), and myself (age 7) forming a lawn mowing service. We called it the GTX (Gary, Xavier, Tom) Lawn Mowing Company. We wrote out our business cards on index cards and put them on peoples doors. When we got our first customer, I was not allowed inside because I was not old enough to negotiate the price. My brother and friend negotiated the price for $3.00. That's mowing, raking up all the clippings (we didn't have a mower with a bag), and edging.

Needless to say, my brother an friend did not check out the backyard before settling on the $3.00 TOTAL fee. The back yard was at least a foot high. Our mower would go about a foot and stall out. It took us 4 days to finish the whole yard. I'll do the math for you. We each earned 25 cents a day for 4 days!

I did learn from that experience to keep my word. I wanted to quit so many times, but my older brother wouldn't let me. We all stuck it out. Oh yeah, our company didn't last too much after that either.

Peace.
Tom

That's a great story Tom, & one of many experiences that forged you into the sterling character that I know today, and am proud to call friend!

Thanks for sharing that.

[tom4bren]

My nephew reminded me last night of one of my mis-spent yoot episodes (I'm sure twin bro has told the story so many times that nephew almost feels like he watched it happen).

It involves a baseball bat and a basketball.

Y'all can fill in the rest.

BTW, I still have the lump on my forehead.