Have a big nickle

I remember going to my Grandfathers house on Christmas morning. The usual gifts were an envelope from my grandfather with a five dollar bill, which was a fortune in those days, and a special book of life savers from my Grandmother. It was one time of year when all the cousins were in one place. One memory I always had of my Grandfather was him reaching in his pocket and pulling out a fifty cent piece. He would toss it to you and say "Here, have a big nickle". Wow, a big nickle could buy quite a bit at the drug store. Remember a candy bar was ten cents. Now, you can't get a kid to get out of bed if you left a trail of ten dollar bills to the kitchen. When we were kids we would do anything for money. Shoveling snow was one of the most lucrative jobs ever invented. A big snow meant the rich old ladies would shell out five bucks to get the walk shoveled. Even then service was everything. Once you trained an old lady that you could be relied on to show up an shovel before even being asked, the old ladies were hooked. You could retire at eleven or twelve if you had about three or four gold plated old ladies. In the summer we used to paint numbers on the curb in front of peoples houses. The young worthless bums of today have to be paid to inhale and charge extra to exhale. Fortunately the Chinese lend us money so no one has to work these days. In the old days the only Chinese were the Yee's that live up toward the park. The Yee's never were willing to finance the wasteful habits of the rest of us. Thank god we found where there were billions of Chinese to borrow money from so we can have all the wars we want without paying any taxes.