it's -50C with the windchill here today. my wife's a teacher and school was cancelled, too dangerous to run the busses to take the kids to school - to give you an idea.
i get a phone call this morning from a local kid, he wants to shovel the snow off my deck. he's done it a few times before and i pay him well, but today i remind him that it's -50C and he can wait if he wants till it warms up. He insists so i let him do it. he can always jump into the house if he gets too cold I figgure and I tell him that.
I over pay him ( usually about $30 for what i know I could pay him $10 for, it's less than a 1/2 hour job) and he isn't great at it but he gets the bulk of the snow off and I'm wicked lazy so the whole thing works for me.
anyway - the wife drives him home. We know he's from a single parent household. He tells my wife that his mom doesn't get paid till tomorrow and she didn't have any money able to buy any food for the whole family -(he has two siblings as well) so she'll be really happy he's got some money for food for the family.
the kid's only about 13.
ok, personally i think the mom pissed her money away but that still doesn't take away from the fact that this kid really impressed me.
i get a phone call this morning from a local kid, he wants to shovel the snow off my deck. he's done it a few times before and i pay him well, but today i remind him that it's -50C and he can wait if he wants till it warms up. He insists so i let him do it. he can always jump into the house if he gets too cold I figgure and I tell him that.
I over pay him ( usually about $30 for what i know I could pay him $10 for, it's less than a 1/2 hour job) and he isn't great at it but he gets the bulk of the snow off and I'm wicked lazy so the whole thing works for me.
anyway - the wife drives him home. We know he's from a single parent household. He tells my wife that his mom doesn't get paid till tomorrow and she didn't have any money able to buy any food for the whole family -(he has two siblings as well) so she'll be really happy he's got some money for food for the family.
the kid's only about 13.
ok, personally i think the mom pissed her money away but that still doesn't take away from the fact that this kid really impressed me.
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