-WiscoDave
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Shit, when I was 14 I was babysitting other people's kids for the weekend.
There wasn't a whole lot of money making opportunities for a teen-aged boy living in army quarters, so we babysat. I passed out fliers in mailboxes, provided references, the whole drill.
My rate was 50 cents an hour until midnight, 75 cents an hour after midnight, and a dollar an hour once my head hit the pillow if it was overnight. There were more than a couple times I'd show up after school Friday and babysat through the weekend while the parents went to another city doing the tourist thing.
If you treat a kid like they are stupid they will act stupid. If a fourteen year old can't be left home alone then what is the break off age? 18, 22? Cops and society have no business sticking their nose in the way I parent my children.
ReplyDeleteI beat you. I was babysitting at 11. At 14, I was washing dishes in my parents restaurant for 50 cents an hour.
ReplyDeleteWhile I agree that a 14 year old SHOULD be competent to be left at home alone, if mom says she's not, I'm inclined to believe that. And it's not the cops place to make that decision. Therefore, the "legal?" thing to do would have been to offer to call social services. For which they'd later charge mom by the day, but whatever. (IMHO social services shouldn't exist. They cause more child abuse (of all sorts) than they prevent.)
ReplyDeleteDid anyone put on sunglasses and verify the cops were human?
ReplyDeleteOne time we left my youngest home when he was about 12 and when we got home later that night he was sitting at the dining room table ejoying the pizza and bread sticks he had sent out for, working on his homework with his .45 Automatic sitting on the table. I will say you have to put a lot of work into raising them right around firearms to get them to that point.
ReplyDeleteGood job, Mikey!
DeleteMy first rifle was a single-shot Ithaca, a Christmas present when I was about 12 years old. My first handgun was a Ruger Single Six convertible upon graduation from 8th grade in 1969.
I like to think I was brought up right. (Thanks, Dad.)
The Ithaca has been passed down to the next generation.
The Ruger will be passed along. When I die.
You had an Ithaca too? That was my very first rifle. An Ithaca Model 49 lever action .22 with the open hammer. It was an excellent choice - even if you had the hammer cocked and were drawing a bead, you could open the action and eject the bullet.
DeleteI got mine at 9 years old. I passed it down to my nephew. It's a great rifle!
Let me guess, these two imbeciles from Midland got fired then went next door to Odessa and got a job in the hospital, where they started putting plastic bags on the heads of COVID patients. Lord save us.
ReplyDeleteYou guys aren't even trying. :-)
ReplyDeleteWhen I was eight I shepherding my younger siblings across town on the bus.
No one thought twice.
My mother, who once hitch hiked to the next town when she was five, looked back a bit horrified at what she let us do.
Shee-it, at 14 I was trying to earn an income any way I could, plowing/shoveling snow, delivering papers year round, mowing lawns. Father having died shortly after turning 14 I needed to try and take care of myself and relieve the burden on the mom half, no one else was gonna do it. Bunch of candy asses running loose now. Shit-a-mighty what a bunch of pussies this country has turned into. Hard men create good times, good times create soft men, soft men create hard times, hard times create hard men. Which will be your school of endeavor?
ReplyDeleteThis just goes to show that your kids belong to the state, not you.
ReplyDeleteGeeze guys, when I was 16, I came through the Cumberland Gap trying to catch up with my father's immigrant party which had come through the same trail 2 weeks before. Unfortunately, I was set upon by a group of Delaware and Shawnee Indians and got tortured to death.
ReplyDeleteJames Boone
Shawnee killed by 6th great grandmother just about that same time up in what is now West Virginia.
DeleteWTF is up with jack booted pigs in Texas? I don't think Texas is a desirable place to live anymore. All the good Texans I know don't live in Texas anymore.
ReplyDeleteThose cops and the city they work for should be sued for their back teeth.
ReplyDeleteThat there is some screwed up shit. I hope they sue the shit outta all of them!
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