[redshawk]

For our birthday's, Mom would allow us kids to have what you want for dinner...well, if we could afford. For my tenth Bday, I selected WhiteCastle and Moms home made lemon meringue pie AND RC Cola.....yum....Fifty years later, I still cherish this memory and remember it like it was yesterday. After the dinner, Mom confided in me that our entire house hold budget was One Buck a day. One Buck for everything (me and five brothers). The next day, I got a job as a stock boy at the local store during the week and on the weekends, I got another job as a repair man....well boy...fixing sewing machines for some psyco Chinese guy who would scream constantly at me in Chinese. I was able to give Mom 15 dollars a week to help out.

[CSM]

That is a nice story and you were wiser at 10 than many adults are today. In today’s environment, that psycho chinese guy would be breaking the child labor laws by hiring you.....