What do you do for money, honey?

[lizziebith]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I consider this one enterprising, not dumb, but I actually set up a mini mid-way in my backyard and charged neighborhood kids something like a nickle to get in. Ring toss, knock the bottles over, etc. For prizes, I had a box full of stickers and little plastic toys that I'd accumulated. Damn that was fun.

Me too! Sorta... When I was 8 I put on a one-kid circus: I was the ringmaster, lion, clown, etc. and I charged the neighbor kids a nickel (that must be the going kid-rate) to see the show! And they paid! Fueled by my success, later that year I mounted my one-kid production of Brigadoon. No, I'm not kidding!

[Alex]

I once ate an entire (though smallish) apple in a single bite, getting the whole thing into my mouth whole. For a while there I was close to panic and afraid I'd have to go to the emergency room to get it cut out of me since I could chew at all and it was going to come back out. All told it probably took 20 minutes before I managed to get it down.

My high school was across the street from the local community college and I was one of the first three kids in our school district allowed to go take courses there during the day to supplement my high school work. The district was also very strict about not leaving campus at lunch. The CC had a cooking school and therefore had a cafeteria operated by that cooking school and in the cafeteria was a bakery. Every day I'd go to the bakery and buy up a bunch of items (individual pies, cakes, cream puffs, etc.) return to school with them and sell them at amazing profit to the kids trapped on campus for lunch.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Originally Posted by lizziebith

Fueled by my success, later that year I mounted my one-kid production of Brigadoon. No, I'm not kidding!

I did my performances pro bono. For family, mostly. They included an all-teddy-bear production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," a one-child "The New Moon" and, the perennial girl-child performance venue, "Annie."

Oh, and there was a two-child "The Little Mermaid" lip-synch production. My younger cousin and I were both theater bugs, and I cast it and directed it myself. I was always good at casting myself in the best role for me (instead of the role that I wanted.) I cast her-- cute little ingenue she always was-- as Ariel and the chef (because I was playing Sebastian. And Ursula; she was my favorite.) One must double-cast when two people are portraying an entire movie.

Later in my life I'd go in the opposite direction-- instead of one person playing two parts, it was two people playing the role of Hamlet. And after all of those years, my parents were still sitting through my dreck.

[lizziebith]

As an adult, the worst job I had was a brief stint at a nursing home. I had to do the bathing, and the old guys were completely perverted. I suppose I had my revenge, though, in that I always got to give them their last (and by last I mean posthumous) bath. I'd use the opportunity to tell them what I thought of them. Yes, I know my complaints were falling on deaf I mean dead ears, but that, in itself, was the revenge. I am going to hell.