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I'm going to be an old fogy here, but kids nowadays are spoiled rotten. Fast-food restaurants in our area can't find any teenagers willing to work for pocket money because their parents take care of that for them. As a result, whenever I swing by a burger or taco joint (when thankfully isn't often these days), I have to wait forever to get a screwed-up order because the restaurant is grossly understaffed - by middle-aged mental midgets.

There are some girls in our neighborhood who put out flyers saying that they wanted to babysit to "earn money" for some school-related field trip. The wifey called them up to arrange for some babysitting and they said that, like, actually they weren't really interested in babysitting, they just, like, wanted a "donation". The whole thing was a scam. In any event, paying a 13-16 year old girl 8-10 smackers an hour to sit on her butt and watch TV with some younger kids seems ridiculous to me. $5-6 per hour is more like it.