Working Vacation

Took the kids on vacation.

Had a nice place all picked out when it rained and I had to make alternative plans. After some thought, I figured that I could turbo charge their experience and turn it into working fun and it would be way, way better than just petting and feeding animals at a park. Not like the poor deer with three legs is going anywhere in the near future anyway. At least not very quickly.

I’ve read these articles about folks who are using their vacation time to go try out a new career and they sound like it makes them happy, happy, happy. Not that I get it, mind you, but there is apparently something to it to it in an entitled yuppie sort of way. You go play Chef for a week. Try out being a Park Ranger. Or wash cats. Whatever floats your boat. Apparently, the sky is the limit. Fun, fun, fun.

So I decided that denying the kids this right would be tragic. After all, we all know just how competitive today’s economy is. And, of course, they will have me and their father to support so there is no time like the present. So it was off to work.

I made sure they were well fortified for the day ahead and made sure to get them the breakfast of champions at the local gas station. Mia liked the corn dogs and Aidan liked the drink I got him in the little free-sample cup. After all, wouldn’t want to actually buy him the barrel-o-coke. That was for me. Robert passed on the six-pack of beer which I thought was probably ill advised. Just a glutton for punishment, I guess.

Took them to a kid’s museum where I had Mia try out shoe sales. She got the hang of it and demonstrated her product all around. Only problem was that she wouldn’t hand the shoes over to the customer. Her love of shoes just shined too bright and caused some work place conflicts.

So, we moved on to putting her to work in the general store where we had sent Aidan. Put him on cashier duties after we had him unload the truck. Assigned Mia to stock girl. Both seemed to greatly enjoy their duties although Mia did seem to have a bit of an attitude about her brother being the boss which she eloquently expressed by throwing a tomato at him, one at me and then one at a former shoe customer. Fortunately, she does throw like a girl. Then, it was on to fishing and heavy equipment operations........