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When I was a kid in the NYC area, I used to shovel for a few bucks per house. Now everyone in my old neighborhood hires someone, usually a middle-aged Ecuadorian or Mexican. Often the same guy who cleans the roof gutters and blows the leaves from one property to the other.
It might have a little to do with how people are so lawsuit happy nowadays.
I discouraged my kids from doing odd jobs or babysitting for anyone we didn't know pretty well. Not worth the risk of having the lady down the block sue me because she slipped on her walk after my kid shoveled it, or some other similar type of possible disaster.
It's also the reason I have an insured business come take care of my yard instead of paying some random kid from the n'hood to do it.
Maybe I'm just jaded though.
It snows too much here to shovel. Everyone has snow blowers or snow throwers. I know my neighbors usually help us out or we will go over and blow their drive.
It snows too much here to shovel. Everyone has snow blowers or snow throwers. I know my neighbors usually help us out or we will go over and blow their drive.
Come on, it's Minnesota, nobody shovels!
No one parks in the street there where the snow plow plows in your car or you don't have suburban condos and apartment complexes where the parking lot plow forces a person to dig out their vehicle?
Unfortunately many kids today are taught to be lazy, they'd rather sit in front of a video game or text on their cell phones all day. Just look at our society today, manual labor is considered "bad", while sitting on your ass in front of a computer is thought to be "a good career". It's no wonder kids in this country are getting fatter.
Their parents won't let them go out doors, they're scared that it's too dangerous. Not to mention the danger that they will get frostbite, since their parents don't have health insurance. So the kids, if they're not in school, have to just stay indoors and email each other. You can't get your grass cut in the summer, either.
It snows too much here to shovel. Everyone has snow blowers or snow throwers. I know my neighbors usually help us out or we will go over and blow their drive.
Come on, it's Minnesota, nobody shovels!
Here in Michigan no one shovels either. Snow comes, then the next morning you here the drone of snow throwers. Shovels are used on the porch and steps and that is about it.
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