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[Fishing Rhino]

I remember when computers became popular back in the early 80's. People would say what do I need one of those things for.

I said exactly that to a friend who bought a new Apple. That was in the pre-internet days.

Nowadays, every kid is allowed to use a calculator in his/her match class. Look at the ones working as a cashier. Most of them couldn't count out correct change if the register didn't tell them how much.

What's just as bad is that those registers need pictures of each item on the keys or touch screen so they can ring them up.

I think that's more of a no speeky de english problem.

You're probably correct.  They all seem to be able to text just fine.  And, to use computers.

[BASSclary]

I remember when computers became popular back in the early 80's. People would say what do I need one of those things for.

I said exactly that to a friend who bought a new Apple. That was in the pre-internet days.

Nowadays, every kid is allowed to use a calculator in his/her match class. Look at the ones working as a cashier. Most of them couldn't count out correct change if the register didn't tell them how much.

I was never allowed one in school for anything until algebra. The only reason I really use it is because the schools lend them us for the year. Their graphing calculators so they're really helpful. When you have to graph 6 hyperboli, and find out all the intersection, a calculator in that situation will probably save you an hour worth of work.

And I think the register thing is definately not that us legal americans dont know how to use 'em, but I think its the illegal americans that don't know how to use em or count change.

[fishn hard]

I started working in the tobacco fields when i was 10 and god was it hot and worked from 6am until 5pm for 6 dollars a day >

How many of your Moms made you go cut your own switch so she could beat your *** with it and it seamed like she would all ways tear I disagree and legs up the day before gym class ;D ;D

Now I have 3 daughters of my own and yea i beat there *** when needed but never with a switch just the paddle there to old for that now so when they mess up i make them get the shovel and move the small creek in our back yard all 60ft of it ill make them take about 1 foot off of one side and put it on the other. You know after they did that a few times they don't get in much trouble anymore ;D ;D ;D

[SirSnookalot]

I started working in the tobacco fields when i was 10 and god was it hot and worked from 6am until 5pm for 6 dollars a day

That's interesting, you learn something new everyday, I wasn't aware that Pennsylvania was exempt from any child labor laws and didn't recognize federal minimum wage in 1981.

[fishn hard]

Yea and I grew up in Ash NC and i don't really think old Mr Hewitt gave a Rats *** about Labor laws and back then i was happy to get my 36$ cash on Saturday afternoon.and when i turned 16 I bought and paid for my first pickup and paid Mr Simmons 800$ to build me a 16ft strip boat and i was ready to fish I spent alot of days on the Wacamaw river and the Parway river those was the good old days

[Lund Explorer]

I think they moved the gas fillers about the same time the onslaught of downsized front wheel drive cars started. Last car I owned with the filler behind the license plate was an '85 Cutlass.

Remember the Cadillac Cimmaron. A Chevy Cavalier with bling ;D

My last car was a 1970 Chevy Nova that didn't have much downsizing to it.  Until it T-Boned a 1967 Biscayne Station Wagon in 1976!  I sure had a lot of fun in that car.  When I somehow walked away from that wreck, <long funny story I'll save you from> I took it as a sign that I needed to be in a full size pickup, and have been ever since.

The wife is a different story.  I don't remember the Cimmaron, but she did buy one of those Cavaliers.  Bought the thing to save on gas when I was making a lot of trips to Chicago back in the 1980's.  Talk about uncomfortable.... Going from a full size truck to that pregnant rollerskate for trips down the Darn Ryan Expressway @ rush hour.  I never did get used to how you could look right under all those semis!

[Fishing Rhino]

I started working in the tobacco fields when i was 10 and god was it hot and worked from 6am until 5pm for 6 dollars a day

That's interesting, you learn something new everyday, I wasn't aware that Pennsylvania was exempt from any child labor laws and didn't recognize federal minimum wage in 1981.

Farms are exempted from a lot of the laws that apply to other businesses, including minimum wage, child labor, and many environmental regs.

We have season for burning brush here in Westport, from Jan - March/April. Farmers can burn it year round, except during very dry periods when the danger of forest fire is high.

Their livestock can wade in streams and ponds, relieving themselves when they feel the urge. But, let them dye test a homeowners septic system, and a miniscule amount shows up in a creek, pond or river, look out. Time to spend ten to twenty thou on fixing the failed system.

They can spread manure at will, on hillsides with no buffer strips to protect waterways. They also have tanks which hold the liquid. That gets put in a big tank on wheels. Hook the tractor to it. Get it in the field. Open the valve and let 'er rip.

As an aside, restaurants are exempt from paying their wait staff minimum wage.

[Bassn Blvd]

I started working in the tobacco fields when i was 10 and god was it hot and worked from 6am until 5pm for 6 dollars a day

That's interesting, you learn something new everyday, I wasn't aware that Pennsylvania was exempt from any child labor laws and didn't recognize federal minimum wage in 1981.

Come on SirSnook, haven't you ever been inside a Chinese restaurant?  And it's 2010 ;D

[J Francho]

I started working in the tobacco fields when i was 10 and god was it hot and worked from 6am until 5pm for 6 dollars a day

That's interesting, you learn something new everyday, I wasn't aware that Pennsylvania was exempt from any child labor laws and didn't recognize federal minimum wage in 1981.

You apparently never worked for family.  I started at my family's restaurant at 11.

[SirSnookalot]

I started working in the tobacco fields when i was 10 and god was it hot and worked from 6am until 5pm for 6 dollars a day

That's interesting, you learn something new everyday, I wasn't aware that Pennsylvania was exempt from any child labor laws and didn't recognize federal minimum wage in 1981.

You apparently never worked for family. I started at my family's restaurant at 11.

Your assumption is incorrect.

Working for your family is totally different than working for an established business. I doubt very highly that working for one's family that a child gets a paycheck, probably a nominal amount of cash.  In my case I cleaned fish and shrimp in fathers market when I was 7 or 8, by 11 or 12 I was self employed with a paper route.  As this was a part time job ( couple of hours a day ) it did not interfere with school.

[SirSnookalot]

Come on SirSnook, haven't you ever been inside a Chinese restaurant?  And it's 2010

You never know what those chinese restaurents serve, we were selling them kingfish in Lantana.  You've been on the pier or jettie and seen all those restaurant owners catching blue runners, they say it tastes like dolphin.

[Bassn Blvd]

HaHa, I remember selling barracuda to the Ark restaurant as Dolphin. The restaurant closed down years ago, but not because of the Barracuda.. I hope .

I ate in a restaurant the other day at Lantana and Jog. While walking through the kitchen to get to the bathroom, I noticed they had a Hatian family doing some prep work. A little Hatian girl about 10-11 years old was washing the dishes. I thought it very odd since it was a weeknight about 8:30.

  I can tell right now for a fact that the Hatian family didn't own the restaurant and most certainly weren't related to the owners.

[bilgerat]

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[deaknh03]

maybe the restaraunt was doing some earthquake aid for a haitain family.

[Long Mike]

My younger years were spent much the same as those mentioned above; always outdoors when possible.  Unfortunately, my parents were alcoholics, and my father was one of those unique individuals who hated everyone who wasn't a WASP (White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant.)  He made Archie Bunker look like a saint.  I couldn't wait to get out of that house.  As soon as I graduated from High School I began working jobs to pay my way through college, which I did.  Back then it didn't cost a small fortune to get a degree.  Well, I got my BS and never looked back.  What with building a career and raising kids, it took me thirty-five years to get back to fishing again - and I'm loving it.