OT Why do parents let their kids have lemonade stands ??

[anxietyattack]

I have my window open and for the last 2 hours all i here are kids yelling lemonade ! Not one car has stopped. The only person who came over was the next store neighbor and the kids were trying to force him to drink it and he said he can't because he can't drink sugar or something ! lol
Last year down the street from me one kid was yelling lemonade and he was on the street. I mean i could have freaking hit him! I think these lemonade stands are worthless. Do the parents just want to get rid of the kids for a few hours so they send them out to the curb ?? I don't get it. Also what if some creepy a$$ guy stops. I mean aren't parents afraid of just any old Joe who rides by?? I'm not a parent but i sure as hell would not let my kids go bother people on the street.

 

[red007]

i would never let my kids do that.
lots of dumb parents out there though..

 

[texansfan]

My wife lets my two girls have one whenever the neighborhood has it's community garage sale. The kids set it up in the garage where my wife is and they actually make 10 to 20 bucks doing it.

I can't see anyone just setting one up by the curb and trying to sell it though.

 

[NES]

I think its the kids idea and the parents go along with it. Whats wrong with a kids showing a little entrepreneurship? I would let my kids but kick em in the heads if they were jumping in front of cars.

 

[anxietyattack]

My wife lets my two girls have one whenever the neighborhood has it's community garage sale. The kids set it up in the garage where my wife is and they actually make 10 to 20 bucks doing it.

I can't see anyone just setting one up by the curb and trying to sell it though.

I was gonna mention that. The garage thing is fine. It's just without the garage sale.

 

[RobFunk]

It's like any other business. Location is everything.

 

[texansfan]

I was gonna mention that. The garage thing is fine. It's just without the garage sale.

I hear ya. We live in a nice neighborhood but I always worry about my kids when they go outside to play. You just never know when some nutjob is trolling the neighborhood.

 

[flacapper]

I have my window open and for the last 2 hours all i here are kids yelling lemonade ! Not one car has stopped. The only person who came over was the next store neighbor and the kids were trying to force him to drink it and he said he can't because he can't drink sugar or something ! lol
Last year down the street from me one kid was yelling lemonade and he was on the street. I mean i could have freaking hit him! I think these lemonade stands are worthless. Do the parents just want to get rid of the kids for a few hours so they send them out to the curb ?? I don't get it. Also what if some creepy a$$ guy stops. I mean aren't parents afraid of just any old Joe who rides by?? I'm not a parent but i sure as hell would not let my kids go bother people on the street.

Ive never had to do this but whats wrong with parents teaching kids work and earning money?
Are you that much a scrooge it irks you that bad?
Boy i feel sorry for whoevers around you when you lose your 20 dollar bets.

 

[BigOrange+]

I have my window open and for the last 2 hours all i here are kids yelling lemonade ! Not one car has stopped. The only person who came over was the next store neighbor and the kids were trying to force him to drink it and he said he can't because he can't drink sugar or something ! lol
Last year down the street from me one kid was yelling lemonade and he was on the street. I mean i could have freaking hit him! I think these lemonade stands are worthless. Do the parents just want to get rid of the kids for a few hours so they send them out to the curb ?? I don't get it. Also what if some creepy a$$ guy stops. I mean aren't parents afraid of just any old Joe who rides by?? I'm not a parent but i sure as hell would not let my kids go bother people on the street.

This one is alright though. Hard to bitch about this.

http://www.alexslemonade.org/

 

[BadCo]

When my one daughter played softball my youngest and her friend would set up a stand and they sold licorice and bottled water we bought at cosco,they did very well.

Counting back change was an adventure so I gave them a calculator.

And yes come on football season...........LOL

 

[barman]

I hear ya. We live in a nice neighborhood but I always worry about my kids when they go outside to play. You just never know when some nutjob is trolling the neighborhood.

Does your agency let you take your rig home?

Reason I ask is that I think all of 'em do in our county and thus most neighborhoods have at least a couple marked units parked at any given time

 

[texansfan]

Does your agency let you take your rig home?

Reason I ask is that I think all of 'em do in our county and thus most neighborhoods have at least a couple marked units parked at any given time

No. The only people who have take homes are Lieutenants and above, and those are unmarked.

 

[anxietyattack]

Ive never had to do this but whats wrong with parents teaching kids work and earning money?
Are you that much a scrooge it irks you that bad?
Boy i feel sorry for whoevers around you when you lose your 20 dollar bets.

I'm not a scrooge at all. I don't think it really teaches much of anything. You have cars flying buy at 40MPH and kids are screaming lemonade stand at the top of their lungs. I almost hit a kid because he was practically jumping in front of my car yelling at the top of his lungs. There are more negatives than positives unless the parents are standing right there and the lemonade stand is part of the garage sale.

 

[BigOrange+]

I'm not a scrooge at all. I don't think it really teaches much of anything. You have cars flying buy at 40MPH and kids are screaming lemonade stand at the top of their lungs. I almost hit a kid because he was practically jumping in front of my car yelling at the top of his lungs. There are more negatives than positives unless the parents are standing right there and the lemonade stand is part of the garage sale.

Don't take this the wrong way, but is this a mostly Nigerian neighborhood? The kids in my neighborhood don't scream or jump in front of cars. BTW my neighborhood is racially diverse.

 

[texansfan]

Don't take this the wrong way, but is this a mostly Nigerian neighborhood? The kids in my neighborhood don't scream or jump in front of cars. BTW my neighborhood is racially diverse.

Yeah, he lives next door to beantownjim.

 

[Jack Herer]

If these kids were smart they would be selling other stuff, lemonade just doesn't do it these days, how about pot brownies. And you don't have to worry about pot heads harming your kids, they're lazy hippies.

 

[GreenDoberman]

Goddamn kids and their lemonade stands. They should be out shoplifting, gangbanging, or bullying other kids in their neighborhood.

That or sit in the house all day playing Nintendo or whatever the fuck it is called and eat Cheetohs and Pringles until they get grotesquely obese.

Goddamn young entrepreneurs trying to make a buck selling poisonous sugared water. Can't they figure out the older kids make much more money selling weed and other drugs and they need to get on the fast track.