For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 05, 2019

Mike so doesn’t want to work in the food business. (I never had that kind of job as a teenager. When laid-off from my only-known job and in the process of finding one, I had an assessment at a grocery store; no hire though.)

Mike must think this has got to be a joke (that’s what I think).

Money already spent, eating the hot dogs.

I can think of worse jobs, Michael will probably eat a lot of hot dogs which will cut into his earnings.

One of John’s patients? I predict that Walt of Walt’s Weenies will have had his terrible teeth fixed recently and a now, non-existent dental bill.

Depending upon the quality of Mike’s performance, the man might prefer to keep the dental bill and skip the “help”.

This may not be a good idea. Mike is going to be harassed unmercifully for freebies by his “friends “ which will put him in a real bind.

At least Mike won’t be hungry

He will probably discover that all the hot-dogs are very closely related to each other. Since he will find them mostly in-bread.

My dream job!

at least he doesn’t have to wear a hat with a wiener on it

This could be fun. Does he get to ride the Wiener mobile?

Hot diggety dog!

Weenies for the weenie

This job looks like a real wiener for him.

My mom found a job for me at about that age. It was working at the public library where her friend was a director. I was in heaven! That lasted as a year round job until my father was transferred. While it lasted, I found lots of perks from working there.

Looks like fun to me.

Lynn’s Comments: This idea became the basis for one of the animated shows we did in Ottawa. I enjoyed working with two other writers who were able to stretch a few cartoons into a 26-minute special.

I always wondered how much those places earn? The over head is not all that much after the initial investment. I wonder how much it pays?

Simpler times – now teenagers aren’t put in those jobs because they are too vulnerable with no back up. There used to be a summer job here that involved a bicycle equipped with an ice cream cooler trailer, and their work force was mostly teenagers. It was a good job, kind of fit Mike’s requirement of being out in the sun doing something not too taxing as the terrain is pretty flat, plus the routes would take you past a lot of beaches. That lasted until the unsavories in the city saw them as low hanging fruit and robbed them every chance they got. :( Too bad because I remember the teens interviewed after the company stopped sending them out saying it was actually very a enjoyable job.

Looks like a good job to me. Little boredom involved at least.

Hey, it’s a start. . .my first job was working in a hospital laundry feeding sheets into the ironer all day. . .

Somehow I get the impression Michael was hoping they would just let him stay home if Elizabeth was going to be out of the house.

Perfect first job for Mike! A “weenie” selling weenies!

Joey Chestnut ate 71 hot dogs yesterday.I had two,and was stuffed ;)

My kids had to get food handlers’ certificates to work in fast food. Maybe things were more lax in FBOFW land.

@EowynWolfmoon It seems to me that problem could have been avoided by having a local dairy store(s), for example, sell coupons for the ice cream. That way the kid on the bike would have no cash to steal. After a little advertising everyone would soon know how to buy their ice cream.

Aww he will get to hand out fliers dressed as a hot dog!

One for the customers, two for me!

Mike, it is time to quit acting like a weenie and go sell some. Learn about business and what it takes to hold on to a job. You’d be wise not to screw this opportunity up.

This truly is an old-time situation; I remember back when teens could operate hot dog carts or little popsicle carts powered by bicycles. But too many gangs starting mugging the kids, so it stopped…

Remember these fondly. No hotdog cart owner could afford to pay a kid $15/hour.

Mike you’re old enough to work for the summer. I can still remember when I quit the garden center job (they sent me to help out the one further out on the L.I. and it was far. My dad took me and dropped me off. I was a cashier at the other one I worked. This stupid manager had me watering plants and stuff I was “not” supposed to be doing. I ruined enough pairs of shoes. Well my last Saturday there…I am watering what he told me told and the idiot steps on the hose. I thought it was stuck so I yanked and he went on his butt. So he starts yelling at me. I said “I QUIT” he says “YOU’RE FIRED!”. I said to him I bet you to it, pay me or I will call my lawyer. The look on his face was hysterical….the young guy there who was my friend told him don’t mess with her she’s going to college for law. He paid me. I called my dad and he came to get me. I told him what happened and he said I don’t blame you. I’d have punched his lights out. We chuckled, stopped at Burger King for lunch and had a leisurely drive home. I got my car from Johnny T that next week (head mechanic at Rolls Royce) he fixed the door and other stuff from the drunk driver that hit me coming into my drive way. Then totalled his car. Took his girlfriends’ car and totalled that one. Anyway I got dressed for looking for a job the following Saturday and my dad said where are you going? I said to look for a job. He said OMG stay home, have a relaxing weekend. I said I will when I have a job. Most places didn’t have any openings. I walked into a jewelry store and ask the nice lady upfront if they had any openings and she said to me OMG you are like a gift from above. I asked her what I would do and she said sales and she said do you know about jewelry and then she looked at my earrings, my necklace and rings and said “I see you do”. She said can you start today, I said "Sure I just have to call my parents to tell them where I am and when I will be home.

too long for box…….so this is the rest…..

She said we close up at 6 a.m. on Saturday’s but same and I are Jewish so we leave at 3 p.m. in the afternoon, but Rose and Blackie (Maurice was his real name, the other was a nickname) He did all the repairs and made custom orders. Well I called my parents I told I got a job, my dad said where I said in a jewelry store and he laughed and said OMG I will never see any of that money". I chuckled and said yeah you will as the owner’s wife told me I could buys stuff at cost or under LOL Well I started that day and worked there till they closed 5 years later….they were my family and I loved the job. Plus I was very very good at it too.

So Mike rather than being lazy and selfish try the job at least and give it your best

This from a kid who regards boiling water as high cuisine?

we all know where this is going… can we all say, ‘been there done that’? haha