So far we have found that Iphone games from "Duck, Duck, Moose" are the best for Stinkerbelle to play.
Stinkerbelle is a wonderful nickname. :thumbsup: Course I am sure the Nut Job PCers will tell you that you are harming her with such a name...
The wifey and our oldest have been nagging me to buy a riding lawn mower. Last year I mowed the grass and weeds once. You really only need to mow once a year, in October, after the grass/weeds stop growing! :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing: Nobody but us sees the grass/weeds and I have more importantly things to do than mow grass. My new mantra is "I was not born to mow grass!"
I should copyright that statement and sell bumper stickers.
Last weekend I was at Lowes and I had to look at the mowers. There was this 18-24 month old boy standing/sitting on a zero turn JD mower. His father was looking at light bulbs and not watching the kid. Twas his father's loss. The child has to sit/stand and STRETCH as far as he could to get a hold on the mowers control arms. The boy would hang on to the control arms and ever so softly say "VVVRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm" :laughing::laughing::laughing: It was soo danged funny and the father missed it while looking at light bulbs. I was wondering, and I guess I will never know, how did the kid know to use the control arms?
Yesterday I went to the JD dealer and bought a mower.
Wifey knows of course and our oldest really wants the mower but we are trying to make the mower a surprise so we have not told the oldest. We are trying to get the mower delivered before school so I can be mowing when the wifey returns home with the kids. Should be fun to watch. :laughing::laughing::laughing: The dealership used to be a family run business but they merged with all of the other JD dealers into one big company. Guess they had too to stay competitive. My guess is that the family still controls the dealership. This is a family run business and there has been very little turnover in the staff since I have been going there for almost 15 years. Over the years, I have noticed they have had young kids in the place working. The kids are obviously children of the employees and the kids are there after school has let out. Can you imagine a company letting the employee kids stay at work?
One visit, one boy helped carry my five gallon buckets of oils and fluids to the truck. I told him I would get it, the danged buckets were almost as big as him, but he insisted. :thumbsup: I can't tell for sure, but I think the boy is now a man, and working at the dealership.
Yesterday, a little girl was walking around with parts from one area of the dealer to the other. She was on some sort of a mission.
I watched her go back and forth as I was deciding on a which mower to buy, 42 or 48 inch deck and another $400. At one point I asked her if she was old enough to work and she said, "Yes." :thumbsup::laughing::laughing::laughing: I asked her if she was getting paid and she said, "No."
I told her that she needed to talk to her parents about Child Labor Laws and ask for chore money.
Big Jon, one of the sales guys, told her she needed a better agent. :laughing::laughing::laughing:
I wonder if her nickname was Stinkerbelle. She looked like a Stinkerbell. :laughing::laughing::laughing:
Later,
Dan