Child LabourThere is a special part of Hell I'd like to reserve for those arses that order every single Sunday paper. Do you know how heavy that makes the bundle of papers some poor kid (ie me) has to lug around? Funny how your papers always seemed to get mangled in your letterbox...
I loved my paper round, but, looking back, I was getting paid peanuts to ruin my back and cycle around in the cold and dark. How were you exploited as a child?
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chthonic, Fri 17 Feb 2006, 12:05)
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The things I've done...Most kids normally help out in the garden, a little bit of weeding, maybe planting some stuff, carrying spades around, that kind of thing. I did that, although my Mum's definition of helping out in the garden differed somewhat. By orders of magnitude, and then some.
My Mum's definition of helping out in the garden was me building it from scratch. This involved shifting several metric tonnes of hard core, building retaining walls, moving a lot of turf, building patios, steps, raised decks, fences, dog houses, as well as planting etc. However, the planting ranged from the very tiny grasses, to bloody huge eucalypts. Also, this involved the use of heavy machinery. Yes, I was forced to build my mother's back garden nigh on single-handed. Landscaping is bloody hard work!
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jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 17 Feb 2006, 18:30,
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