re: Embarrassing jobs that parents have

I was walking into a hardware store yesterday evening. A young black teenager and I assumed his father were walking in together and the youngster had paint all over his shirt.

I asked him if he got any paint at all on the wall and his dad busted out laughing. The young man grinned and I stood there talking to them for about five minutes congratulating the young man for having a job and helping his father out. I told him a professional painter could do very well if he'd follow his dad's lead and stay with it. The young man was more than polite.

His father's words were "he's learning, he works hard, and he'll continue as long as he lives under my roof. What's wrong in the world today is all these young punks hanging on the corner wanting their grandmother and parents to hand them something so they don't have to work". Truer words have never been spoken.