I'll Take It or Leave It

Mike's dad offered to pay him ten cents an hour if he would work for three hours every saturday. Mike and his friend decided to take the offer, even though they had a softball game that day. By wednesday of the fourth week, i was ready to quit. The school lunch was miserable,. School was boring, and now i didn't even have my saturdays to look forward to. But it was the 30 cents that really got to me. Even at the age of nine, in the mid fifties, 30 cents was not too exciting.