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[olimario]

When I was a kid we did the fresh squeezed lemons with sugar and water bit and we sold it for $0.25 a glass.

I stopped by a lemonade stand today that a couple 8 year olds were running and I dtopped them a couple bucks for a couple glasses (though it was only $0.50 a glass).

Do you know what I got?
A tiny plastic cup filled to the top with ice. Then they dug a 2-Liter bottle of store-bought, diet lemonade and poured me some.

What is it with kids these day?

 

[tedtropy]

Do you live in a 60's time warp portal? I haven't seen a lemonade stand since...well, I've never seen a lemonade stand. Also, I don't buy drinks from kids that still think "pee pee" is highly amusing, iff'in you catch my drift.

 

[DarienA]

When I was a kid we did the fresh squeezed lemons with sugar and water bit and we sold it for $0.25 a glass.

I stopped by a lemonade stand today that a couple 8 year olds were running and I dtopped them a couple bucks for a couple glasses (though it was only $0.50 a glass).

Do you know what I got?
A tiny plastic cup filled to the top with ice. Then they dug a 2-Liter bottle of store-bought, diet lemonade and poured me some.

What is it with kids these day?

I can't believe you didn't take pictures of the stand... oh wait you were actually standing there so you couldn't... you only take pictures of stuff when people don't know you're doing it.. right?

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

olimario, it's called inflation. and also, how lame were you as a kid?

 

[Foreign Jackass]

Do you live in a 60's time warp portal?

He lives in Texas. *rimshot*

 

[Justin Bailey]

Yeah I used to do lemonade stands when I was a kid. One time we gave a guy a cup that had accidentally gotten some debris in it. He started to drive off and then threw the cup out of the window and said "There's shit in this cup!" We laughed pretty hard about that for a while.

Man, being a kid rocked.

 

[fennec fox]

I look forward to saving up my cash and buying a house in one of the endless subdivisions that clog suburban Houston so I can have experiences like oli does.

 

[olimario]

I grew up in a neighborhood where kids weren't lazy as fuck and they did stuff with their summer free time. I don't think I spent any daylight hours inside during the summers between ages 7 and 12.

If we got tired of playing sports with friends, going to the pool, or going out riding our bikes, we found other stuff to do like lemonade stands.

 

[Ristamar]

I thought most kids just used Lemonade flavored Kool-Aid packets (or Flavor-Aid, if they're cheap bastards).

 

[tedtropy]

He lives in Texas. *rimshot*

Dem's sodomizing words, mister. <spits our large glob of to'baccy>

 

[tedtropy]

I grew up in a neighborhood where kids weren't lazy as fuck and they did stuff with their summer free time. I don't think I spent any daylight hours inside during the summers between ages 7 and 12.

If we got tired of playing sports with friends, going to the pool, or going out riding our bikes, we found other stuff to do like lemonade stands.

I'm pretty sure my soul was owned by the evil minions of Nintendo Corp. in those days, as were most. We were still quite lazy.

 

[Ryck]

Internet bitching isn't what is used to be... I mean some kids lemonade stand? geez

 

[Goreomedy]

I stopped by a lemonade stand today that a couple 8 year olds were running and I dtopped them a couple bucks for a couple glasses (though it was only $0.50 a glass).

Do you know what I got?
A tiny plastic cup filled to the top with ice. Then they dug a 2-Liter bottle of store-bought, diet lemonade and poured me some.

What is it with kids these day?

Good business sense and an eye for suckers?

 

[Foreign Jackass]

I'm pretty sure my soul was owned by the evil minions of Nintendo Corp. in those days, as were most. We were still quite lazy.

Better to be owned by Nintendo Corp. during 12-17 then to be owned by Nintendo Corp as a grown-up.

 

[bjork]

Dude, lemons are too expensive unless they're picked by UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS.

 

[Hitman]

Good business sense and an eye for suckers?

:lol
Oli owned.

 

[Regniws]

I think i'm going to set-up a beer stand. I think that would sell pretty well. Go and Put up some signs through my subdivision. Ice-Cold Brew 12 oz. for a few bucks, easily rack in some dough from the rebelious teenagers in the neighborhood

 

[tedtropy]

I think i'm going to set-up a beer stand. I think that would sell pretty well. Go and Put up some signs through my subdivision. Ice-Cold Brew 12 oz. for a few bucks, easily rack in some dough from the rebelious teenagers in the neighborhood

Why would they drink beer when they can buy drugs from the kid next to his locker? Convenience, it's all about convenience.

 

[olimario]

:lol
Oli owned.

Damn right, I was.
I just wanted to support some hard working kids and I ended up giving money to a couple of slackers.

 

[Ferny84]

Do you live in Riversdale.

 

[Goreomedy]

I just wanted to support some hard working kids and I ended up giving money to a couple of slackers.

Why are they slackers? They delivered the product that was advertised. Did the sign over the stand say "Fresh Squeezed"? And why are you expecting 8 year olds to handle a sharp knife to cut lemons in half?

 

[Guzim]

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Vicious]

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[GaimeGuy]

I grew up in a neighborhood where kids weren't lazy as fuck and they did stuff with their summer free time. I don't think I spent any daylight hours inside during the summers between ages 7 and 12.

If we got tired of playing sports with friends, going to the pool, or going out riding our bikes, we found other stuff to do like lemonade stands.

Like take pictures of each other from their windows and behind trees and in the bushes!!!!!!!!!!

 

[etiolate]

I haven't seen a lemonade stand in forever. Thats crazy about the kids though. Maybe you should tell Sherrif Taylor about it or I'm sure Barney is up to the task.

 

[Jewbacca]

Im in houston and usually on the weekends I see kids do lemonade stands all the time...
Nothing unusual about it.

 

[MIMIC]

I didn't do the "lemonade stand" thing (this was the inner-city, mind you ). My brother and I had this set-up where we sold big plastic cups of frozen drinks (fruit punch, grape, orange, etc.

It was pretty profitable.

I've never actually seen a "Lemonade Stand" in real-life, though.

 

[etiolate]

"I'm tellin yah Andy, these kids are running a racket!"

"Now Oli, just settle down, just settle down."

"Settle down? This is just the first step Andy! Next thing you know they'll be dropping out of highschool and selling pornography for electronic toys!"

"Oh now seriously Oli..."

"Heh. My nephew sure is crazy, ain't he pops?"

"Oooh, we don't talk about your brother.."

 

[Rorschach]

:lol Typical Holier than thou Olimario.

 

[bionic77]

:lol Typical Holier than thou Olimario.

A Holier than thou high school dropout!

I always assumed any kids who were lame enough to sell lemonade were asking for a ass-kicking of Biblical proportions?

P.S. Anyone remember that game lemonade stand on the Apple II C? That game kicked ass!

 

[GaimeGuy]

A Holier than thou high school dropout!

I always assumed any kids who were lame enough to sell lemonade were asking for a ass-kicking of Biblical proportions?

P.S. Anyone remember that game lemonade stand on the Apple II C? That game kicked ass!

No, but I remember Root Beer Tap for the NES/Arcade!

 

[bionic77]

No, but I remember Root Beer Tap for the NES/Arcade!

This game also rocked!

Not the same thing on a console though.

 

[DJ_Tet]

A Holier than thou high school dropout!

I always assumed any kids who were lame enough to sell lemonade were asking for a ass-kicking of Biblical proportions?

P.S. Anyone remember that game lemonade stand on the Apple II C? That game kicked ass!

Yeah I played that and a lot of other edutainment on our Apple II Es in grade school

I personally liked Turtle

 

[olimario]

Real lemonade stands are nerdy...
Let's go play 'Lemonade Stand: The Game'!

 

[Gahiggidy]

Living by a golf-course, you can make a small fortune selling lemonade.


I charged 75¢, but most just let me keep the change. I used country-time instant mix.

 

[olimario]

Living by a golf-course, you can make a small fortune selling lemonade.


I charged 75¢, but most just let me keep the change. I used country-time instant mix.

I lived near a golf course until I was 16. A couple of my friends would collect golf balls from the bottom the water hazzard, clean them up, and sell them by the bag at the driving range. They made a shit ton of money.

 

[Gahiggidy]

The golf-course management put up a coke-machine one hole behind my locatoin. I cut the power-cord. The next year, they sent people out in golf-carts to sell sodas to the golfers out of a water-cooler. That's the year I got out of the lemonade business.

 

[Willco]

You tell 'em, Olimario! Olimario also spends his free time in the summer selling homemade ice cream with his Dad!

 

[Arwen]

At least they were actually selling something someone would want--my neighbour lets her kids run wild outside all day long and I guess they got bored with screaming and running up and down the street, because they began a door to door sales business. The other day they stopped by and tried to sell me a dirty pinecone for $0.50.

 

[BobbyRobby]

I live in New Jersey and I've seen kids selling Lemonade. Not often, but every once in a while. Nothing strange about it.

 

[olimario]

At least they were actually selling something someone would want--my neighbour lets her kids run wild outside all day long and I guess they got bored with screaming and running up and down the street, because they began a door to door sales business. The other day they stopped by and tried to sell me a dirty pinecone for $0.50.

:lol
I had a girl in my new neighborhood try to sell me rocks she found by the pond down the street. I told her that if I wanted rocks I would go get some on my own.

 

[Jewbacca]

Did someone say rocks?!?

sorry i had to =[

 

[mightynine]

The golf-course management put up a coke-machine one hole behind my locatoin. I cut the power-cord. The next year, they sent people out in golf-carts to sell sodas to the golfers out of a water-cooler. That's the year I got out of the lemonade business.

That's the sweetest story ever and should be the basis of a "Three and a Half Men" very special episode.