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Once the hormones kick in, you'll be more interested in the dolly birds than gramophones. Keep your pants on!

With 2 very young sisters and a young cousin I really couldnt stand any more kids!
And AZ, they did long ago ... Still prefer the gramophones though!, less effort

You can also work after school at a local restaurant as a busser/food -runner. You can't take orders, but the tip share can be awesome at a busy restaurant. Then there is always the hated but sometimes lucrative mowing lawns....how well I remember!
Best of luck, you'll get there!

Norfolkguy wrote:You can also work after school at a local restaurant as a busser/food -runner. You can't take orders, but the tip share can be awesome at a busy restaurant. Then there is always the hated but sometimes lucrative mowing lawns....how well I remember!
Best of luck, you'll get there!

As a teenager, I would have much preferred mowing lawns to the joys of babysitting, changing dirty diapers (they were cloth in those days - ugh), cleaning spit up, and entertaining unruly and ill-mannered older children.

I'm with you Tinkerbell

Clay

As a teenager, I would have much preferred mowing lawns to the joys of babysitting, changing dirty diapers (they were cloth in those days - ugh), cleaning spit up, and entertaining unruly and ill-mannered older children.


You are so right Tink......cloth diapers....yeah, yard work can be fun!

Norfolkguy wrote:As a teenager, I would have much preferred mowing lawns to the joys of babysitting, changing dirty diapers (they were cloth in those days - ugh), cleaning spit up, and entertaining unruly and ill-mannered older children.


You are so right Tink......cloth diapers....yeah, yard work can be fun!

Back then, a diaper genie (which you could drop a disposable diaper into and have it instantly wrapped like a sausage link, for those who do not know) did not exist. For those who might remember cloth diapers, I'm sure you recall the lovely aroma of the diaper pail... and the joy of rinsing out those cloth diapers!

Back then, a diaper genie (which you could drop a disposable diaper into and have it instantly wrapped like a sausage link, for those who do not know) did not exist. For those who might remember cloth diapers, I'm sure you recall the lovely aroma of the diaper pail... and the joy of rinsing out those cloth diapers!

Tinkerbell, they couldn't have payed you enough! I'm the favorite uncle to many nieces and nephews, but except in rare cases I was able to avoid diaper changing....mostly! Hope we haven't scared this young man to death! I think child care is not in his future! Then again, for the right phonograph, I'd babysit Charley Manson

if you have some nice loud phono's you could go out to fairs and festivities and go busking with your phono's i do it here in the netherlands each year at the queen's birthday festivities what i do is that i make a paper or cardboard notice saying that they can choose whatever to pay if they want to hear one of my phono's some give 5 cents but others give 2 euro in this way i can count on 75 to a 100 atleas every year with ten thousend people walking by there's bount to be people that are curious about those strange machines
also over the years i picked up a couple of phono's aswell you always have people saying hey! i have one of those! and 2 times i even got them for free! at the end of the day you din't just make money you showed people a piece of history and.. had fun doing it as well!

greetings
tino

That looks really cool!!
What is that Columbia with the huge black horn?, and are those horns rare, I Ned to get a original phonograph horn!