Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 07:29:18 -0700
To: balloon@balloonhq.com
From: Mark Balzer <mbalzer@balloonhq.com>
Subject: Re: advice? -Long.

>OK, fellow twisters, I need some advice!...
>After a few more minutes (and a couple of non-tippers) my protégé
>wanted to go "somewhere else."  Like in the mall. Well, he is 16,
>he gets bored easily...  So we went into the mall...
>How do I get my "kid" to quit looking for a "bigger, better deal?"
>He gets restless whenever we don't have a line, and wants to move on
>if he gets a couple of people that don't tip.


Others (ahem...) may make excuses for the 16 year-old, but have you 
considered that _you_ might be too much of a pushover?  Why, when I 
was at that restless age, I remember complaining to my parents about 
how I didn't want to work 70 hours a week in the cotton mill.  Well, 
they knew better than to let some snotty kid talk back to them, and 
introduced me to the iron leg shackles that were attached to the base 
of the machine.  Yep, nothing teaches the value of hard work like 
those five minutes of freedom three times a day to go to the bathroom.

I don't know where one buys leg irons these days, but I'm sure your 
local welder could make them for you.  Though my old set is too small 
for me now, I'm saving them for when I have my own son and he says 
"But Dad, I don't want to work on the Guide."

I hope this helps,

Mark

ps  :-)
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