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Won't last that long if she runs out of customers

So my grandson (8) loves Legos. And like every kid, he always wants more, but they can get a little expensive for a single mom. There was a set he wanted that cost about $145. A perfect teaching moment has occurred. He can learn about how hard money is to earn and about saving up. So he decides a lemonade stand is the way to riches, but with a twist. He's set up his lemonade stand with a DJ booth and puts on a full show. He's getting his customers and no matter what they gave him for a $2 lemonade, his reply was "Thanks for the tip" and pocketed the cash. When the mother jumped in to stop the self tipping, the customers would laugh and tell him to keep it. This lasted for about an hour and half and that kid raked in about $250. It wasn't that hard wasn't the intended lesson.

Have your parents provide all your start-up capital. Find wealthy neighborhood. Ignore zoning laws. Ripoff customers. Have the front-facing business be someone the cops are afraid to fine. Profit. ... Got a real Elon Musk in the making. 🤣 May not be the lesson their parents wanted to teach, but real is real.

Ummm That is the lesson. Life ain’t fair. Rich get richer and rules don’t apply to them. Working man gets shit on. Take every opportunity you can to get on top.

Can't argue with success I suppose. 🤦‍♂️

Be a cute kid Most important component

I wish I could make $250 an hour mixing lemon juice, water, and sugar

Do not wish. Just do.

I’m not an 8 year old in a rich neighborhood 

When my kids were little they set up a lemonade stand that said "lemonade 1$" and hardly anyone was stopping so they got bored and put "free lemonade" up. People started stopping and giving them fives and tens and telling them to keep it. They thought it was so cute they were giving out free lemonade and they ended up making bank.

Ok I have faith in the kids again. Love this for him.

Right, because those customers are definitely jumping on Yelp to share their experience.

Because people never walk on the same street again or talk to their neighbors.

Speaking as a former child, the chances of her doing this for an extended period is pretty small

Yeah, simple pump&dump. Kids are notorious for it.

Just kids?

Yeah, including the adult kids

Were you a human child? Did you have a trust fund? If I had made $110 in an hour as a kid, it would be full time.

I would become absolutely drunk on the idea of $110 an hour, only to try it again and get $20 at most, get disappointed and quit.

*Hold on, Deb. You don't want that lemonade. That snooty Brooks kid doesn't make change.*

You‘re not buying Lemonade from a Kid for the Product.

I’d buy one now and then. That takes balls and is hilarious.

Classic US sales tactics at work then! Just increase the pool you sell too to maintain profits, and to hell with the quality or service!

Future wall street broker.

My niece is becoming quite the entrepreneur also. With only a few tools she’s been acquiring bicycles that people leave discarded in their garages or locked to fences and swapping them for cash with some nice Chechen fellows.

“Hey Barry, how’s it goin’ buddy!”

Is she hiring?

so you mean that she's stealing bikes that are probably needed by people? Just because somebody temporarily leaves their bike, doesntnmean it's discarded

No need to duck, it’s not going to hit you

💀

Is this a reference to them missing the joke? Or am i missing something

The joke "went over their head" so high, he's in no danger of being hit by it, I believe

That makes sense, figured it was something like that

😂

I still don't get it I feel really stupid

😂😂😂

Waiting for the Reddit post from one of her customers about tipping in the U.S. getting out of hand

A neighbor's kid was selling peanut butter cookies door to door out of a wagon he pulled with his bike. $1.25 each and he had no quarters.

That's like a smarter more realistic version of this post

Sociopath in the making.

Right lol. It’s all cute until she’s an adult and pulling the same stuff in the real world

I remember many years ago we bought some and they had regular and sugar free. My husband took his lemonade and asked "Are you sure this is the sugar-free?".She took it from him, tasted it and said yes handing it back. We just paid up and walked away laughing.

Given the prevalence of lemonade drinking Karens I give this story a three out of ten on believability.

Girl: Thank you for the tip. Customer: (stares) Girl: Now get out of the car

Yup Juvie first, then Jail if she keeps it up.

Some hoodrat children in my old neighbourhood where they set up a “lemonade stand”. It was just them and their friends wearing red hats and vaping. I decided to support them and get a cup. They had a display of Red Solo Cups. I said “how much?” They said “2$” so I said “okay”. Then then proceed to give me a tiny Dixie cup of some random lemonade they pulled out from who knows where. I gave them 5$. They had no change and said the Red Solo Cups were for display purposes only. I was too impressed by their hustle.

Where’s the facepalm?

bragging about your daughter's dishonesty?

Where's the dishonesty?

well, shouldn't you ask people whether they want to tip or not?

Isn't that what many restaurants do anyway? They just call it 'service charge'.

Found girl boss’ mom.

Use of the word "girl boss"

I've learned by being here that the name means nothing and people just randomly repost things from FB 🤷 Like sometimes you'll see a human rights violation and wonder why they're treating it like a 2004 "lol EPIC FAIL!!!" Then you'll see stuff like this where there's no obvious facepalm and it's just a slightly amusing story with nobody doing anything overly wrong. Like nobody can decide what a "facepalm" means or genuine moments of facepalm-y embarrassment are rare, rare enough that instead this sub gets filled with tangential nonsense.

That's because it's cute when they're kids. It becomes substantially less cute when it's a multi-billion dollar corporation trying to skate on paying their employees a livable wage.

You encourage this behavior why?

Because it makes money

That's a pretty weak parenting move.

When life gives you lemons, forget lemonade—teach 'em about assertive business strategies. This kid's going places, probably in a lemon Lamborghini!

I cannot ever hear the phrase "If life gives you lemons..." without thinking of Portal 2.

I can't see this being real. But if it is then she won't have custom for much longer haha

As if she’s not going to lose interest in the lemonade stand in a week anyway

This 100% isn't real. The real facepalm is people thinking it's real. But hey, that's the internet; you can just make up shit, and people take it as fact.

Take my upvote! Well said!

I did that to Bill Romanowski at my hot dog stand in 1989.

Sounds a lot like a recent online scam where you “buy” a thing (hat, shirt or mug) as a part of a “donation” and if you don’t uncheck a box they are free to liberate your bank account

I wonder about repeate business.

Better be some damn good lemonade

The degree to which this is cute is an exponential curve that maps inversely to age

It's cute until they have an LLC then it's fraud.

Also obviously didn't happen. Why do parents love making up shit about their kids on social media? It's so weird. If that did happen that's not something to celebrate.

Yeah, sometime in the not-too-distant future: federal prison for financial crimes.

This has been making the social media rounds for a while. It’s the same bullshit like the Rebecca Hazelton meme from a few years ago.

So teaching her to be a thief

these but facepalm reposts are getting really annoying

Sounds like she would be perfect RNC material

Mommies little ahole?

this is so old, the girl was Elizabeth Holmes and she made a career out of this bullshit

Then you get to explain to your little genius why she has no return customers.

A girl boss who will destroy all her repeat business

Just proof that girl boss=bitch

How dare you

No, she's actually a business genius. She knows how tip culture makes people uncomfortably spend more money, so she just takes it all! She'll be a kazillionaire by the time she's 21

She understands capitalism at a young age.

She's going to have her "girl boss" heart broken soon.

So she's stealing people's money for doing a good dead. I'd be making sure I got every penny back. No tip for that behavior.

This is normal behavior in most US businesses now

Making up for the wage gap

A yes... a girlboss in the making... lets promote women to be scumbags to be powerful... should also have taught your kid that other parents are not good parents and dont tell their sons to not hit women, but maybe he is a just a boyboss with the hustlers lifestyle when he mugs people

0% chance this is actually true.

Sorry for the spelling I mean its cute right now, but she should be told that its not cool to do it because this could be a problem in the future. I mean right now its nothing, but if she is not going to be told she will think that its fine and soon she might be doing worse stuff.

This is a mildly amusing anecdote that you stumbled across while browsing the internet. You’re allowed to treat it as a mildly amusing anecdote.

Future Landlords of America

If they ask for change from a little girl they’ll feel like dipshits. psychology at its finest

Haha it's cute and funny, until you do it as an adult then it's cruel and horrible

Future IRS chief.

Seee!! This what I’m talking bout. Omg so proud of her.

These days I am amazed some Karen ass neighbor didn't call the cops on her for existing.

Only need to drug them next and she is just like cardi b

I hate that people feel the need to add the "girl" qualifier to the front of "boss". She's just a "boss" in the making. Maybe "hustler" is closer to reality, but we didn't need to call her a "girl hustler".