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If you're not like Allie, where you can afford to go on a vacation every two and a half weeks.

SPEAKER_01 0:05

I don't know if I can really afford it. I mean, I I'm it's it's paycheck to paycheck. Oh. On the fun train.

SPEAKER_02 0:10

On the fun train. Well, you know, you have options, just so you know. If you uh if you're at a point where you're like, oh my gosh, I mean, it just sounds so tempting, but I can't afford to do anything else.

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SPEAKER_01 1:17

I mean, it's an option. You know, this reminds me of me and my cousins had the I have been side hustling since I was a kid. Me and my cousins set up a carnival in our backyard one summer. So it was actually at my cousin's house, but we all lived really close together. So we charged kids admission a nickel.

SPEAKER_02 1:35

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

And so they had one of those, remember it was it would go on the back of your lawnmower, and it would be kind of like a square box that you could put like dirt and stuff in. So it wasn't huge. So then we would the wheels on it.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

It was like a little cart that you could ride around. Yes. Uh with the riding mower.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

Yes. So what we would do is we would charge kids a nickel and they would come and then we would. It's a poor man's hay ride. Yes. And so we Which is already a poor man's ride. Yes. So we would put kids on the back of that. And then we had the and how stupid is this? There was like some random potato sack. Why, why did we have a potato sack? I don't know. But you gotta fill the space. You went on the slide in a potato sack. We had all different kinds of janky things in the back. Yeah. And we were charging kids, and we had a line every single day.

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See, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 2:21

It was awesome.

SPEAKER_02 2:23

Did you have like a concession stand? Anybody made pot? No, that's a great idea.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

But we did have multiple sprinklers because they're this is like the family that has like 19 of everything. Uh-huh. So we set up like all these different sprinklers so it was kind of like your water feature.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

This is brilliant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_01 2:40

Especially like a weekend like or a week like this with the heat dome.

SPEAKER_02 2:44

Heat dom.

SPEAKER_01 2:45

Then going through seven sprinklers does sound awesome, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_02 2:48

What really is great about this is in today's day and age, most parents would sit there because you gotta find money somewhere, right? Yeah. So let's say you're, you know, ravaging through mom's purse for like, I don't know, a dollar to get into the pain amusement park. Which, by the way, can we never name an amusement park? That's the name of the one that was at the RM All. The Pain Amusement Park. That's right. So uh at uh at any rate, you know, you're rifling through trying to find the admission fee in. Uh-huh. And in today's day, they you know, parents would be like, yeah, no, what is going on? What you know back then, they're just like, Good, get out of the house.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

But here's yeah, but here's the difference is because I had some older cousins. But back in the day, and this is also just so wild, if you were 10 or above, you could be babysitting kids younger than you.

SPEAKER_02 3:36

Yes. And so now here's my Oh, you meet the height restriction, hop on the back of the riding mower.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

So I'm probably seven at the time that this is happening. Melina is ten, her sister is eleven or twelve, like a twelve-year-old.

SPEAKER_02 3:50

Just straight up going to the uh corner store to buy beer for everybody.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

So Melanie's like in charge of all of us, and there's everyone from like between seven and and ten that there's six, seven, eight of us that she's in charge of.

SPEAKER_02 4:04

And how old were the kids that were coming to the pain amusement park?

SPEAKER_01 4:07

I mean, they're probably like five, six, seven years.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

Oh, yeah, they go, they're young enough to not know any better. And their kids, their parents don't care. They're just like, get out.

SPEAKER_01 4:14

Right. Well, exactly. So here we are, we're doing this whole side hustle thing, and there's no parent to tell us yay or nay. We have we have Melanie at the age of 12 who's bossing us around.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

Yeah, and and figured out the layout of eight sprinklers.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

Right, and she's like, Alicia, get to the sprinkler station.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

Turn the water out, turn it off, turn it on, turn it off.

SPEAKER_01 4:35

I'm like, Melanie, I'm tired.

SPEAKER_02 4:37

I don't care. You used to be a few.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

We have more nickels to make.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

If you had a hill in the backyard, you could have made your own flume or or get a slip and slide. I mean, you've been set.

SPEAKER_01 4:46

Oh my god, we did have a slip and slide. By the way, why what's the thing about not eating or eat not drinking out of the hose? Why is this bad?

SPEAKER_02 4:53

There was because the chemicals of the ho that are make the hose, I guess. I don't know. Okay. I don't know. We all live through it. Look at us today.