Lazy customer kids

[PremierLawnscapes]

I have noticed an ongoing trend among a lot of my customers this year. I find myself at their residence doing weekly cutting, etc only to see their highschool kid rolling up in a car, brand new cloths, and looking at me in almost disbelief or oddness. Now of course if it werent for these lazy, spoiled kids id be without many contracts, however it just amazes me how many of my customers have kids plenty old and able enought to help around the house and just dont. When i was in highschool i had to push mow 2.7 acres every sunday. You would think to save them $250.00 a month they would tell little johnny to get out there for an hour a week and tighten the place up. But like i said, these lazy kids are great for business!

[RatherbeBassin']

I have posted about this exact situation since day 1. I mow 3 seperate accounts weekly that all have teen boys @ home and a riding mower! 1 of these accounts has 2 teen boys and an older Deere ZTR.

[steve-o]

why do you even care???????????????? screw them........................ $$$$$$

steve

[Shoal]

I have always wondered about that. it is good for business. let the the kids look at you with oddness. one day soon he will be on his own and then he may be looking for lawn jobs to support himself. and maybe your face will quicken to him. shoal

[Littleriver1]

One day soon he will be out on his own and you will have a new account.

[RatherbeBassin']

why do you even care???????????????? screw them........................ $$$$$$

steve

Just hate to see the times change. I had never known a young man NOT to mow the folks lawn weekly. It was the right thing to do in my day. What ever happened to that?

I do not have children (and won't) but cannot imagine the mentality and raising it took to get the kid to that point. I was the fattest, laziest, most spoiled kid within a mile radius of our home. I mowed ours, G'ma's and another ladies occasionally when her son was out of town. Her son was a grown man who mowed his Mom's yard weekly when he was not touring. (This gent is "Curly" Belk, a local ol' country singer that I always heard was something in his day.) There is no respect or moral substance to so many of these youths. I am amazed @ the lack of social skills these young folks display. Ever seen 1 try to ask for something politely?

Guess those days are over when we hugged Mom's neck 1st thing when ya seen her, kissed G'ma's cheek as you bent down to hug her lil' neck, and did what needed to be done for them as it was just the right thing to do. Nobody better have had to tell you to do so either, then it was too late and you had upset other family members by being an azz that does not respect his elders.

That is why I care. You just took care of your family/friends w/out thinking about it. It was instinct.

[GrassMaster]

Dream on...

It was the right thing to do in my day. What ever happened to that?
There is no respect or moral substance to so many of these youths. I am amazed @ the lack of social skills these young folks display. Ever seen 1 try to ask for something politely?
You just took care of your family/friends w/out thinking about it. It was instinct.

Those days are just about over.
You might find 1 or 2 in fifty & that's pushing it. I feel sorry for the females & young ladies growing up now.

We live in a society that the guys call the younger girls the B-word & they've been called that so much that it's sociably accepted by most girls.

About 4 years ago my daughter & some of her friends were over at the house, one of the guys called her & a friend of hers B'es. I went straight over to him & told him if he did that again that I would B slap him so he could relate to what I was talking about.

He laughed in my face, he was reaching in his pocket for something & that left hand of mine tightened up on his neck. I asked if his sister was one, or his mother one, LOL I said how about your damn Grannie or aunt are they one.

He never came to the house again & from what I heard he never called girls names like that again. All they need is a father figure which most are denied.

It's common place for guys to hit girls at parties & other public gatherings, nothing done, they all just watch, just like at school there's a lot of guys hitting girls there too, if they do that they'll hit their mothers or grandmothers too.

Family violence & assault on others is at an increasingly rate. All the kids need is parental supervision, which most don't get. It takes too much time & effort these days for fathers to be fathers. It interferes with time off, golf, fishing, hunting & etc.

Now a days fathers think they are measured by how much they do for themselves, today a divorced father thinks all he's got to do is buy toys for kids like go carts, 4 wheelers, video games it's sure as hell an easy way to cop out being a father & all the kid needs is a man to talk to, a father figure? What's that... a father figure?

A lot of problems could be solved if all the men & fathers would step up to the plate & do what they're supposed to do. But it's too much trouble & takes up to much time.

I like it when I hear a young women or lady say well we will probably never get married, because when we talk about it, he says why do we need that piece of paper, why ruin a good thing?

That just about sums it all up, why ruin a good thing? What's good about it?

Commitment is what it's all about, why ruin a good thing, there's so many unwed mothers out there in their teens & it's growing daily, a home & a family needs a father and mother, if you open your eyes you should be able to see the results now it's getting worse daily?

"Why ruin a good thing" that's a joke, that's lowering the appraisal of what your life is worth?

Respect & common decency for others starts as a child at home and comes from both parents, it's hard to do when there's just one person home.

[lorenzo piedra]

Where I come from men are men and women are men too!!!

The culture is much different when you live only 100 miles from NYC and Philadelphia.

If fact it's so different we have girls sports that they don't even play down south.

For example girls field hockey.

The PA high school state field hockey champions, first AND second runner-ups are from my local area.

Anybody want to tangle with this babe who has been swinging a club for 5+ years?

[RatherbeBassin']

Awesome fellas! I went to a private school (after being expelled from public school) that had field hockey and lacrosse for our ladies. Scary ladies @ that.

GM. I would be in jail if I were in your shoes that day. This is why we do not choose to have children. And again Big Daddy GM, you are dead on 'bout where this starts/how it happens... @ home.

AND, I was @ a party about 10 years ago where a guy I knew (few years younger than I am) smacked his lady. I was drunk and just slapped him. It was on! This guy climbed my tree and attempted to whup that azz. I am WAY too big for this to have any effect so I just tossed him. Long story short, I was arrested later then released. Released because his folks went through the roof when they found out why I threw their son onto a privacy fence breaking his left arm. The parents apologized for the situation and the Mom started crying, explaining that the kid's bio-dad was a drunk/abusive azz.

My Dad was physically abusive. I was scared to be w/him until I was 17 or so. If you knew me and my Dad you would not believe this as we are close now. BUT it took many years and a lot of losses (deaths) for us to be drawn together. Again, we have a relationship due to the fact of how my Mom raised me. Always reminding me "No matter what he is your father..." She was right. He was wrong, he knows it, he has told me many times. AND he has expressed how proud he is that my Mom did such a good job making me a respectful young man.

I hate to see the way these kids act towards their folks/peers in public. It embarasses me in a weird way. Uncomfortable feeling watching a parent let a young adult act so selfish and juvenile. My Mom was 5'2" and would literally make both her feet leave the ground reaching up to smack my face! Ahhh the good ol' days!


The Hagg said it best...
" Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?"

[Mike J]

I've got 1boy (15) he is also my stepson. He works with me as much as he can no questions. He wants to help and make money also. He feels bad when we have a big job or big day that he can't be there helping.

He also works with his uncle, hauls some hay in the summer (he just got back from that) and in the winter he cuts and hauls wood.

It is Yes Maam and Yes Sir, No Maam and No Sir.

I also have 3 girls that I better not catch or find out a guy has laid 1 hand on them. Or I will not be posting much on here anymore or at all.

My wife says Im to intimadating. HA HA HA Not enough I think. Oh well, I won't be easing up on that anytime soon, youngest is 8 other 2 are 11, & 12

My boy has told me that the big thing for girls to do now a days is to give BJ's. WTF

Well guys I could go on for days.

[GrassMaster]

Life is Good!

GM. I would be in jail if I were in your shoes that day. This is why we do not choose to have children. And again Big Daddy GM, you are dead on 'bout where this starts/how it happens... @ home.

I hate to see the way these kids act towards their folks/peers in public. It embarasses me in a weird way. Uncomfortable feeling watching a parent let a young adult act so selfish and juvenile. My Mom was 5'2" and would literally make both her feet leave the ground reaching up to smack my face! Ahhh the good ol' days!

True that, I was very careful with him & it was a one on one experience around the corner of my carport. Also to cover my back, I have at the beginning of my long private driveway, 2 sets of Private Property & No Trespassing signs. Those signs considering where I live at works miracles. I do think the kid was 18 or very close to it?

LOL, if they under 18 I will terrorize them. My oldest daughter was a problem in her early teens so boyfriends were always problems. LOL, she's still a problem at age 22. To tell you how bad, you can't get within 200 feet of my house any direction without setting off motion detectors for many flood lights.

My Father & Step father were both very strict both were in military. My father, I probably seen him beat the crap out of at least 5 or 6 people growing up. All it took was about a minute maybe 2 max. I saw him beat 3 city sanitation workers to where they could not get up in less than 2 minutes. He was bad to the bone & was not scared of anybody or even a group of people.

He was champion wrestler in Naval fleet in WWII, he says he was the first man (Frogman) to flag Iwo Jima beach before daylight, he got hit by scrap metal when they saw him flagging the beach he was in military hospital for almost 2 years, he was a Deputy Sheriff back in mid 50's he was in many shoot outs chasing moonshiners, years after he was asked to resign he was cleared of all charges for the ones that didn't make it away from shootouts.

Hard life, abusive, hmmm never knew different until I was older & saw the real world. At age 18 he didn't approve of my life style, I told him I didn't need him no more. He had got hurt at work & I had to help support him at age 16 to 17 years old. At age 20 I got married, he showed up at the wedding & introduced himself, telling my wife & I he would be our best friend until he dies... He was then the best father I could have ever asked for until he died in August of 1995.

He only drank one or 2 beers on my 18th, 21st, 30th & my 40th birthday I think. People think alcoholic fathers are bad, you should have one that doesn't drink they are just as bad or worse because they don't sleep as much or pass out. So they have more time to find things you do wrong & on you more about it.

We all have our stories growing up, all our lives was unique in one way or another. I know a girl that a friend of mine was married too one time & she's almost went insane because she was always filthy rich & always got her own way. She's now worth over $300 Million & just as unhappy as she can be. She had it a lot harder than I ever did...

I was lucky, I only had 2 step fathers & 8 (I Think) step mothers, LOL 7 stepmothers for sure. Life was & is good! It made me a better man, husband & father because all of it. I've been happily married for over 30 years!

[RatherbeBassin']

He was bad to the bone & was not scared of anybody or even a group of people.

Hard life, abusive, hmmm never knew different until I was older & saw the real world.
People think alcoholic fathers are bad, you should have one that doesn't drink they are just as bad or worse because they don't sleep as much or pass out. So they have more time to find things you do wrong & on you more about it.

I was lucky, I only had 2 step fathers & 8 (I Think) step mothers, LOL 7 stepmothers for sure. Life was & is good! It made me a better man, husband & father because all of it.

Yep. Mine too. He was THE bouncer in this town when he returned from his Navy duties. Never much of a drinker either. Always wanted one of those funny drunk dads, so I thought. Then Mom dated a string of them through my Junior high/High School years. All losers w/no desire to do anything but drink.

My Dad came back 'round after my meth addiction was curbed. Guess curiosity got the best of him. Glad we're buddies now. I now have him here @ our home for weeks on end w/no date of departure! Gets old and Cindi gets tired of him but we need each other now and I am happy to have him still alive to see. (He is the last of my family besides my Mom's bro's.)

And another yep for the steps! I had a stepfather to be that died in county jail after taking on a # of the Sheriff's boys in a drunken rage @ the biggest family park in our city. Everybody seen it too. Mom was set to marry this guy. Funny how the Man upstairs takes care of some things huh? My stepfather shot at my MOM w/his Colt Gold Cup .45 (which I have now) and missed her, hitting the fireplace brick and leaving a hole in it that is still there. I was calling police when he fired the shot. He got upset and charged me when he seen I was on the phone. I hit him with the fist that was holding the phone and he simply went out. We lived in our river trailer over in Kansas for months hiding from him.

He and I raised/trained upland bird dogs for many years after he and Mom divorced. He kept this old Gordon Setter we had purchased as an old dog in 1992. (Casey) About 5 years ago I had to go get Casey off his dead body as the dog was attacking police/fire people when they attempted to rouse my stepfather, then crawling on top of his body to protect him from the intruders. Saddest thing I ever seen. What a dog. Stepfather had drank himself to death. Alcohol poisoning. The dog was sick too. The dog had to eat this bassterd's vomit to survive and in turn got really sick from all the Aristocrat vodka. Never seen a bigger/filthier mess in all my years as a 'medic. Puke/dog crap everywhere.

Man! What a vent. Had not thought of that day in years. That guy was pretty good to me too. Just alcoholic.

Sorry to the rest of you reading my childhood woes. I know most of us have a unique upbringing and can relate somehow. This will be my last reply to this thread as it is getting too serious and WAYYY off topic.