02-26-2015, 11:59 AM
(02-26-2015, 10:47 AM)panamaniac Wrote: That's logical. It occurs to me that things were so much easier back in the day - there was always a ready supply of teenagers and pre-teenagers in the neighbourhood looking to make a couple extra bucks by shovelling your sidewalk. They'd even go door-to-door to ask if you'd like them to do the job. Simpler times....
In my neighbourhood we've gone from having a long list of readily available baby sitters twenty-five years back to a couple of overwhelmed teenagers who do not need the money to begin with. A clear change in demographics there.