Posted on 10/02/2022 4:20:27 PM PDT by Twotone
My 8-12 year old crew referred to this type of person as a “stationary object.” The easiest possible target. In our neighborhood, that lady would never be able to own a hose or have an active outside faucet, park her car outside the garage, get a paper delivered, have a working doorbell or many other things people get used to having. When the crew learned that you could write pretty legible messages in the grass on a lawn with a squirt bottle filled with gasoline, I think the whole block got a lot friendlier.
I was I think in the 2nd grade, Camp Hill PA. We had several lovely 4 O’clock bushes. I overheard a neighbor telling my mother than those black seeds the plants dropped could be planted to produce more.
So, I go the idea to sell the seeds to our neighbors. I collected the seeds and put them in letter envelopes decorated with my crayon drawings of the flowers and sold them at 5 seeds for a dime or 25 seeds for a quarter. I also had some flowers I picked to show what they would look like if planted.
After canvassing the neighborhood, having a few doors slammed in my face, I managed to come home with about $5.00.
My mother was mortified but my dad thought I showed a lot of entrepreneurial spirit but was told to stop.
A few years later, in the 4th grade I decorated one of those multi-color click pens and my pencils with a fancy frill on top made with construction paper, foil wrapping paper and glitter.
Many of my classmates asked where I got them from, and I told them that I had made them. Then many asked me to make them for them too. I said, sure. “.50 cents up front and another $1 at delivery” and even took some “custom orders” for .50 cents more. I had made around $10 before a teacher caught on to what I was doing and made me stop.
That is like betting if the sun rises in the east. About 2/3 of white women are totally unhinged these days.
If I were Karen’ neighbor, I’d call the cops on her every chance I got.
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