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"Quest for the Jetsonian Box"

Last week we left off with:

"Several days later Stevie still had not shown up. A few of the customers said they would let me mow their yard one time, since it needed it. But if Stevie came back the next week they would continue to let Stevie come back.

Stevie did come back the next week.

But I kept visiting."

And now, set back and lets continue:

I noticed that occasionally Stevie would miss a few jobs. I started to get those jobs permanently.

By the end of the summer Stevie was out of business.

Prozac lady did not want me to mow her yard. Well, I don't actually know that because she never even heard my offer.

The shiny box?

You had to ask didn't you? Of course I went to the shiny box. At this point I was no longer excited about pushing the button on the shiny box. But I felt I had to sell that box something.

Something.

It had become almost a quest with me to get that Jetsonian space age box to become my customer.

And so I approached the box. I pushed the button.

"What do you want?" the box asked.

"Would you like me to mow your lawn sir?" I asked.

"No. Do not push this button anymore," the box requested.

The rest of that summer I visited the box every week. I had to. It had become part of my routine now.

Winter set in and the lawn mowing business ended for the year. But as snow came to us, and in Wyoming we got more than our share, the opportunity to make money was still present.

If it snowed on a school day, there was not a lot of chance to earn income because most walks were shoveled by the time we got out of school.

However, there were always a few people that had not shoveled their walks and I would run ask if I could do it for them.

People were willing to pay $2 to $5 to have their walks and driveway shoveled. More than they were willing to pay for lawn mowing.

I learned a lesson. Click here to go to chapter 15