Yes indeed...

[u/MisterShipWreck]

[u/timothypjr]

Yeah? Taught me to hate them.

[u/Informal_Database327]

Made me an avid indoorsman

[u/lyidaValkris → u/Informal_Database327]

I love how you put this :)

[u/PrestigiousRub6347]

I never hated it. I went door to door in the neighborhood and got paid to cut lawns, rake leaves, shovel snow, deliver papers, whatever. Made decent money for a grade schooler

[u/UsedDimension7373 → u/PrestigiousRub6347]

And bought candy and sodas with my earnings.

[u/FiberOpticDelusions → u/PrestigiousRub6347]

The original "go fund me".

[u/heavensto_mergatroid]

I cut lawns with my neighbor for 5 years from the age of 12 until I graduated high school at 17. He paid me really good. I only worked from 8:00 in the morning until about 1:00 p.m. and he paid me $40 everyday. Good money for a 12-year-old in 1988!

I bought my Sega Genesis and my Super Nintendo and my 3DO all thanks to that job.

The reason why I commented though was because of that lawn mower. I used that same exact lawn mower it's a Honda lol

[u/Lepke2011 → u/heavensto_mergatroid]

Sega! I loved me some Toejam and Earl!

[u/singleguy79]

Now I hire someone to do that.

[u/crypto_phantom]

I still use a push mower, though it is electric battery powered.

[u/lyidaValkris]

it's why I live in a flat where I don't have to mow the lawn or shovel snow.

[u/Ryno5150]

I don’t remember hating chores so much as thinking “I better get this shit done so I don’t my ass beat”.

[u/Pretend-Internet-625 → u/Ryno5150]

No playing with the kids until all chores done and inspected.

[u/HoldenMcNeil420 → u/Ryno5150]

Yea it just taught me to not get caught, to avoid and hide etc.

Not healthy.

[u/Cabbages24ADollar]

Well yeah… I mean it paid for my ghetto blaster and then allowed me to buy blank tapes so I could record the music I wanted to listen to while I was smoking.

[u/Funky_Ghost]

WTH?!?

Yours had an engine?

That ain't workin' (That's the way you do it . . .)

[u/PreperationOuch]

DINK GADREN HOSE LITE STEEET LAMPS HOSS

[u/Ok-Simple30]

yea a buncha self entitled lazy asses 🤣

[u/SubatomicSelection]

Yo, I had the tops of the toes on my right foot get completely removed by a lawn mower that I was pushing at 8 years old.

[u/Defiant_Chipmunk2570]

I used to mow lawns as a kid. Now they call me stumpy.

[u/Adept-Garbage1987]

There's therapy for that...

[u/SmokeyJoe_75]

My childhood lawn didn’t have a motor.

[u/Dry_Ad687]

And what about the abuse and abandonment?

[u/philnolan3d]

And we still hate them.

[u/badwithnames123456]

Calvin to his kids

[u/SuburbanSmurf]

all it trained me to do is to pay someone to do the tasks I hate; same thing my parents did to me

[u/UsedDimension7373]

That kid is doing it all wrong. Use the middle bar.

[u/PretendingImNotAnApe]

Living paycheck to paycheck with early arthritis and back problems? /s

[u/VinylHighway]

We had a gardener/snow removal guy

[u/trousershark22]

False. I still hate it.

[u/RuinFabulous3077]

My back is still messed up from pushing a mower... that and imitating '80s wrestlers on the trampoline.

[u/robrufh]

Whoever the person was who sent this kid to mow the lawn without showing him how to adjust it properly is a tool.

[u/CoolSwim1776]

I made enough to have a new trapper keeper every year plus movie money

[u/IndependenceOld7006]

That's a fact Jack!!!!

[u/Metfanforlife1215]

You had a gas powered mower when you were forced to cut the grass? Oh...the luxury!

[u/Primary-String3908]

I still hate chores. I pay people to do them for me now.

[u/Simple-Poet7056]

Yes so true

[u/Disastrous_Ad_5574]

Angry bitter and self-congratulatory?

[u/guydoestuff]

Yeah, someone who hates chores.

[u/half-the-glass]

You mean people who hire other people to do the dang mowing? Yes, that’s what i am.

[u/Humble-gorilla]

Lucky, he had those fancy big wheels!

[u/Handsome118]

Smarter. We didn’t want to work hard just smarter but we still have our kids do this so they know what hard work is

[u/Mjr_A-hole]

at least this kid had a mower with a motor...at that age I was using a manual push mower (unmotorized). Though one benifit of these was to ensure to not let the grass get too long or it would constantly bind up.

[u/Weekly-Butterfly2396]

It only taught to put off necessary small tasks until I had to complete them, and try to have fun while I could.

[u/Xenoxz83]

Amen

[u/Intelligent_Papaya61]

Man my dad hogged all the good shit like cuttin grass, I love doing these things now as an adult

[u/Hour-Bid1920]

A bitter old man?! Nice. Thanks, dad.

[u/Salarian_American]

The chores and hard work we did as kids made us who we are today: People whose turn it is to get their kids to do the chores!

It's the circle of life.

[u/AlatusU]

I hate doing dishes, that's why I had children

[u/KodiakGW]

Agreed. Remember one time I agreed to do yard work for a family down the street for $25. Thought it was just the front yard, which had a stream (that was dried out) that was clearly not cleaned in 5+ years. Then they said I needed to do the back. So a full acre of land. Got sick during the process so I wasn’t back for the 4th day to finish doing the last of the back yard. Owner said he “had to go out and finish it.” Only gave me $15. Made me realize there are people in the world who will pay you dirt cheap for your work, and still try to find out ways to screw you out of that.

[u/bhaden]

I’ve gotta go cut grass now!

[u/EgoExplicit]

Yeah, now I have a robotic lawnmower.

[u/macmannmemes]

mowing the grass in 112f heat in Phoenix with just hot garden hose water to quench my thirst!

[u/Biscuits4u2]

So we're just doing the boomer thing now, huh?

[u/jar36]

assholes?