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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shoveling snow isn't like a lot of jobs and it's so cold today.  My teen got stopped by a neighbor while shoveling another house who asked him to do their house today.  That house hasn't been shoveled at all, not Sunday, not Monday, and they gave him a crappy plastic shovel and no salt/de-icing agent and gave him 30$ to do a fairly large sidewalk, driveway and stairs.  I can see him from our house chipping away slowly at the ice.

He came back to our house to get our metal shovel and our de-icing agent, and it's ok to me because they're neighbors (even if they're not very near neighbors), but some people just don't understand what is involved in getting rid of snow.   30$ isn't enough for a big house where they don't even have their own salt to de-ice in weather like this.[/quote]

I would not let my kid do this, sorry. Return that $30 and save your back, kid. [/quote]

You are wise. My kid returned sore and unhappy and our good metal shovel's handle is now broken from chipping away at that ice.  They gave him $40 rather than $30 because they felt bad about the shovel, but basically we have to go out this weekend and buy a new shovel and probably some more de-icing agent to get through the next storms.  Sigh.   
 
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