I sell and deliver cords firewood and my 7yo son wants to be just like daddy so he asked my last spring if he could start his own little wood business by selling wood in front of the house. (He was 6 at the time) So even though we live in a neighborhood and don't see much traffic, I build him a rack to put out there (we built it together in reality) He makes up his signs and fills the racks with wood he split himself using my small splitter. Business was slow over the summer but it started to pick up recently. He gets off the bus all excited to see some sales yesterday so he runs in the house, grabs the key to his lock box and realizes it didn't add up....yup, some SOB stole from him! They didn't take much but he was so disappointed to learn that some people could be that disgusting.
Yes is a shame when people do that around here we have so many Mennonite people with veggies and flowers on the roadway with a money bucket there also. I often wonder how much just walks away again a shame but a lesson learned I just hope he does not let one bad apple spoil it for him.
Hope it is a one time deal. With an honor system you never know if someone decided it was BOGO day or didn't pay at all.
That is really ashame jrider like you say some people are just disgusting. I have a 4yr old, helped me unload my truckload last night and I could only imagine how devastated he would be. Just remember what goes around comes around!
Sorry to hear that.... Great thing overall that your doing for him ... life lessons and what reality is... hopefully you explained the reality of what happened there.... Good Luck!
Yup. Had the same thing happen to me some 4 years back when I sold bundles for 2.50. Jeeze, how much cheaper could you get for firewood. It's the price of doing business, no? I'm betting that if the low lifes knew it was a kid, they would be more honest.
Well you know what they say, "Splitting your own firewood heats you twice, but someone splitting away with your firewood really burns you up!" Okay well I just improvised and revised that a bit, but you get where I'm comin from. Yeah, I see that kind of honor system business upstate NY a lot and here in Sussex county New Jersey with farm stands. There is a small farm in Montague NJ that has a cash box for buying their corn and always wonder if people are on the up and up with it. It's been there for years so I think people are pretty respectful or the lock box model would have changed by now. Come to think of it, there is so many road side corn fields and apple orchards that I wonder what stops some SOB from just pulling over and picking? Oh well, I hope your son still loves the process. At least his overhead is low and maybe he can use this as a tax write off haha...
Miserable rotten p.o.s. that'll steal like that just grinds me. If somebody needs help l'm all about it, but when they help themselves to someone else's property l get real hot. Hope this doesn't make your boy too cynical at a young age. Great thing you got going there.
Just put up a sign that says "smile you're on camera". Doesnt really matter if there's a camera or not.
Nine times out of ten it turns out to be some highly paid individual with a total lack of moral standards. Still a dirt bag in in my book don't care where they come from. Personally I do not consider that as business as usual - it just that there is no good way to get retribution. What passes as political correctness is exactly the same as the what passes out the back side of a male bovine.
SOB doesn't really describe those type of people. Well, you son learned a couple of life's lessons. A third one is that not everybody is like that one. You lucked out there chris.
It's a good life lesson for sure. Probably just Uncle Sam anyways... I like the sign with no actual camera.... little effort and zero cost, keep your margins up!
There's an apple orchard down the street and he says the two trees near the road aways have a lower yield than the ones closer to the house. His high yield trees are behind his house.
