Anne Logan:  

cking back some. I'm going to get there by doing my best to manage my finances, yet live,love and laugh along the way. My first job was at the Dog House when I was 14 years old, where I got paid tips and too small to mention amount of money to waitress tables and car hop serving food at the teen hang out at the time.. What I remember most about it is when an ex boyfriend kept blowing his car horn after I had already had waited on him. He reordered and changed his mind after I brought the drinks back out to him and honked the horn again. I dumped the drinks into the car and paid for them myself!!! Now we would call that harassment, then it was just anxiety we had to endure. I've come a long way, not a chance now--pretty headstrong. Which memory would it be, the fearful ones or the ones where you remembered how your granny would give you food when they didn't have it and had to be kept a secret from grandpa. The fearful one--once we were on a picnic and I was playing on a pile of gravel away from our area, I saw our car leaving and thought I had been left behind. I started walking down a dirt road and had no idea how to get home. I was crying and a car came along and asked me who I was. I told them and they picked me up, took me home--they knew my father since he was a well known business person. I was terrified.I had not been left-my mother was still there. Imagine that today-- On the other hand I had a very stingy grandfather--although they had very little, my grannie would sneak food to us-special things like candy etc. that she would buy with her check. Super good things were that my parents never fought and we were taught to appreciate what we had, my parents always spent time with us and we did simple things-picnics,having friends over, bunking parties (playing records-playing limbo)visiting my grandma, going to church. I was the tomboy and in the summer tagged after my dad on tv repair service calls and even wrote out the tickets including taxes--wow I didn't think anything about it then. I don't think kids would take to that now. My pay was maybe a milkshake or hamburger and that WAS a treat cause we didn't eat out at all!! --hey I cleaned car parts with a paint brush and a pan of gas or putty knife, Since my dad was a multi tasker he also did foreign car repair. Our treat was walking to the local river for a swim--barefoot on hot asphalt. We would swim across the river to the BIG rock to jump off of, by the way--we had no adult supervision or life jacket, didn't own one.Oh well I turned out quite well, which proves you can make the right choices and it doesn't take money, just the right moves in life. Obey the laws, opportunity is available--no drugs or alcohol, just a little hard work and honesty...Oh lots of picking up rocks out of the garden if we fussed with each other- the easy things were all the bushels of corn, peas and butter beans we had to husk or shell, no going to the river till it was done. Now teenagers think they should have a new car at 16 if their parents have one...I see a problem with that..