When Life Gives You Synchronicity…

Cidu Bill on Aug 11th 2010

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15 Responses to “When Life Gives You Synchronicity…”

  1. Kit Aug 12th 2010 at 12:10 am 1

    Dare we hope for a Big Nate / Frazz crossover comic?

  2. Frosted Donut Aug 12th 2010 at 12:27 am 2

    I think Lemonade Stands are just the cartoonists go-to kid summer activity. “Red and Rover” usually does a few strips on it each summer, too:
    http://www.arcamax.com/redandrover/s-760493-184529

  3. Rebecca Aug 12th 2010 at 01:57 am 3

    Has anyone made money on these stands?

  4. Proginoskes Aug 12th 2010 at 03:21 am 4

    Back when I was in elementary school, there was an Apple ][ program that simulated a summer’s worth of days of running a lemonade stand. I had played it a few times and noticed you can do quite well on “Hot and Dry” days. (The other students laughed when I made 100 glasses … Then I laughed when I sold them all.)

  5. Marshal Aug 12th 2010 at 04:22 am 5

    Life is stranger that comics..

    http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/Lemonade-Stand-Busted.html

  6. Nate Aug 12th 2010 at 04:00 pm 6

    One thing I never get…why are comic strip dads always after their pre-teen kids to “get a job”? How many 11-year-olds are bringing home a paycheck?

  7. AaronB Aug 12th 2010 at 07:56 pm 7

    There’s this more recent story too.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20012899-504083.html

  8. Mark in Boston Aug 12th 2010 at 10:06 pm 8

    In most places, to sell food you need a permit and inspections by the board of health and maybe the USDA. This would apply to an adult setting up a lemonade stand. They’d bust the adult. So should they bust the kid?

    If they DON’T shut down the kid setting up a lemonade stand, what about the kid selling marijuana on the next block?

  9. Cidu Bill Aug 12th 2010 at 10:10 pm 9

    Mark, there is a difference between selling a legal substance and an illegal one, isn’t there? And the occasional kid does get busted for running a lemonade stand — but it’s rare enough that when it happens, it gets written up in the newspaper and mockery ensues.

  10. Kilby Aug 13th 2010 at 03:43 am 10

    Rebecca (3) - I vaguely recall setting up a stand once or twice as a kid, but the take was never that impressive (and probably would not have covered the actual costs of the raw materials). On the other hand, a few years ago I saw a stand in a particular Washington suburb on a very warm spring day during cherry blossom season (with lots of tourists taking pictures), and the kids seemed to be doing very brisk business.

  11. Molly J Aug 14th 2010 at 12:32 am 11

    Our town used to host the local Gus Macker basketball tournaments one weekend every year in the park right behind our house. The usual food stands were there charging $3 for a bottle of water.

    We went to WalMart and bought several cases of water which we put in our ice cooler and my son set up a stand on our sidewalk *just* outside the Macker and sold them at the far more reasonable cost of $1 each. He made more than $50.

  12. CIDU Bill Aug 14th 2010 at 12:43 am 12

    There’s a huge weekend air show in central Jersey, with almost 200,000 showing up each year, and everybody gets there by way of rural roads designed for the tiniest fraction of this number. Needless to say, the traffic situation is well beyond nightmare status.

    Kids who set up lemonade (and food) stands in their front yards along these roads make money hand over fist.

  13. Jeff S. Aug 14th 2010 at 01:16 am 13

    Nate @6… The dads do that because the kids are bored and tend to stay indoors. They want their kids out of the house. Also because they want their kids to understand the value of hard work… but mainly, they just want them out of the house.

  14. bAT L. Aug 15th 2010 at 06:26 pm 14

    When I was a kid, my friend from across the hall and I set up a Koolaid stand in a neighbor’s yard, but I always saved my money, so it was more of just setting up a stand for the experience. We even made signs for it, but nobody believed that us kids drew the pictures on it for some reason. We made enough to cover the materials, even after drinking most of the product for ourselves, but it wasn’t a whole lot of money. I think we spent it all on candy anyway.

  15. Detcord Aug 16th 2010 at 03:26 am 15

    CIDU Bill (12)

    There are only 2 ways to get to Jersey, boat or small plane.

    OH! I’ll bet you mean NEW Jersey, and not the much older British island just off the coast of France - from which I presume New Jersey gets its name…

    :-)

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