That’s good. But I’m so old I remember when I was 8 going up to the corner tavern to get my Gramps a dime bucket of beer!
I can remember buying cigarettes for the parents. I also remember being allowed to go shopping at age 14 or 15, and my parents gave me their Sears & Roebuck credit card. And the store accepted it, trusting that my parents said it was ok to use the credit card. I know that wouldn’t happen today.
My husband spent his preschool years in a bar because his mother worked and his father hung out at the bar.
When he was in college, before all the NCAA rules when the athletes had money galore and no one cared if they went to class, my husband made a living beating them at pool, especially bumper pool. We probably would have starved without all their money.
Another trick he had was he could make a vertical jump to the top of a bar stool, he could always make a lot of money in a new crowd.