Just today I walked through my neighborhood past two of these, operated by pairs of bored or semi-desperate youngsters. I estimated them to be about 11-year old boys in the first case, and two sisters, about 6 and 8 (accompanied by dad in a lawn chair) in the second. The stands were within about 100 yards of one another.
I vaguely recall attempting this ploy exactly once, being bored spitless, making just about one sale before giving up forever. This raises several questions in my mind:
- Did you ever try this yourself when young?
- Did you get more than a couple of sales before giving up?
- Did you learn anything of value from it?
- Would any kid ever think of doing this, if the comic strips didn't keep this stale meme alive year after year?
- As an adult, do you ever stop and buy a lemonade to encourage their budding entrepreneurial spirit?
- Do you even carry the right small change to be able to buy it if you wanted to?
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 19 August 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Did you ever try this yourself when young?
-Yes, for an hour, with some older friends and my brother.
Did you get more than a couple of sales before giving up?
-No, I mostly just screamed insults at oncoming cars that didn't stop and was so annoying that I got told by the older kid in charge to go back to the house. after which the money came pouring in.
Did you learn anything of value from it?
-That I had anger management issues
Would any kid ever think of doing this, if the comic strips didn't keep this stale meme alive year after year?
-do kids today really read comic strips (strips, not books, mind)
As an adult, do you ever stop and buy a lemonade to encourage their budding entrepreneurial spirit?
-fuck no
Do you even carry the right small change to be able to buy it if you wanted to?
-I don't carry change at all
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 August 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
Did you ever try this yourself when young?
Pretty sure I did, once or twice.
As an adult, do you ever stop and buy a lemonade to encourage their budding entrepreneurial spirit?
I have, yes.
Have you ever seen a movie that had a kid-selling-lemonade scene?
I added my own question there. Yes, saw one just the other day: Gus Van Sant's Promised Land. The scene had a symbolic point that I thought was made effectively but someone else might find awkwardly telegraphed.
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 August 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link