‘I am the leader/boss. I am also cool and nice’: Heartwarming local boys win over the neighborhood with their lovable snow shoveling business proposal

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Jan 13, 2024 11:00 PM EST

Remember when local kids used to set up their lemonade shops' on the corner with ramshackle tables, styrofoam cups, mom's antique water pitchers, and the biggest tub of lemonade you've ever seen? Although there's much to question about the food safety involved when buying fruit juice from a child with marker all over their fingertips from making their poster-board signage, any adult with a heart feels the gravitational urge to buy a cup.

Don't mind if I drop a $20 tip in the tip jar just to reward your efforts, kiddo.

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It's an adorable happenstance to stumble upon in your local neighborhood kids engaging in a fruitful hobby. Like when babies put on sunglasses, dogs wear human clothes, or when a parrot speaks perfect English, something's charming about children taking on the challenges of adulthood with the innocent lens of childhood dreams.
When I was about 6 years old, my sister and I put together a marionette beanie-baby play in the park and we sold tickets for $10 a pop. Although we never calculated the thousands of man-hours (playtime) that went into the script, practice, and production of the show, we earned hundreds of dollars at the end of it! So even if it was financed by charitable local adults, it still felt pretty great.
Scroll to enjoy another happy tale of industrious neighborhood kids that'll warm your heart and would have any local adult reaching for their wallet.
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