Did you go to summer camp as a kid? (2 Viewers)

[guidomerkinsrules]

I had my first summer job in 7th grade. I was a bus-boy at a seafood restaurant. My dad was hard-core.

But let's step back for a minute - the Chick Fil-A "camp" thing is neither a job or a camp. If you actually read the article (and look at others), it's more a kid-friendly gimmick than anything else. It is something that franchisees are doing on a very limited basis (the corporation has said that it is not involved) and the kids basically go for one "shift" - at one of the restaurants it is one hour, and the other it is three hours. The availability was just a four-day period during the summer and you sign up by the single time slot.

But they get a t-shirt, and food, and ice-cream and learn about how Chick-Fil-A works, they even get to help with the service. Kids love Chick-Fil-A, and parents probably see it as something fun for their kids to do for a bit of time. And the managers probably see it as a combination of community outreach and cultivation of long-term customers.

These restaurants aren't really supplementing their labor pool by having a few days where some kids come in to help for fun. And a kid attending an hour or even a three hour event at Chick Fil-A isn't a job and it isn't even a camp.

It’s propaganda
Deep fried propaganda …
with ice cream

 

[superchuck500]

It’s propaganda
Deep fried propaganda …
with ice cream

It's not propaganda if it's delicious.

 

[FLEA]

I went to Camp HardKnocks....I was sent to Missouri to buck hay for the summer. I did this every summer from when I was 7 or 8 until I was 18...Good Times!!!

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

realizing that more than anything I went to Camp Grandmas
My grandparents lived on a lake in NW Miss and we’d go up every summer for at least a week - we’d go swimming, canoeing, fishing, hiking
Head into Memphis occasionally
Loved going up there

 

[antipop]

i went to camp at Galatas Playground like a proper Kennarian....i was also a counselor for one summer

 

[St. Widge]

i went to camp at Galatas Playground like a proper Kennarian....i was also a counselor for one summer

I knew you were a Kennarian despite all of your protests to the contrary.


I never went to camp. I spent summers swimming in an above ground pool, watching TV, playing touch football, and catching crawfish and turtles in The Parish drainage canals.

 

[efil4stnias]

I never went to camp. I spent summers swimming in an above ground pool, watching TV, playing touch football, and catching crawfish and turtles in The Parish drainage canals.

THAT WAS SUMMER CAMP- just so happens my mom paid for it when it could have been free. lololol

 

[antipop]

playing touch football

weenie

 

[St. Widge]

THAT WAS SUMMER CAMP- just so happens my mom paid for it when it could have been free. lololol

They don't call St. Bernard Parish God's Country for nothing.

 

[St. Widge]

weenie

All we had to play on was the street. We tried tackling there and our parents considered it a bad idea. We did play tackle in front yards at times, but that ended after I broke my neighbors collar bone while tackling him. We didn't have a big field like Galatas across the street.

 

[efil4stnias]

All we had to play on was the street. We tried tackling there and our parents considered it a bad idea. We did play tackle in front yards at times, but that ended after I broke my neighbors collar bone while tackling him. We didn't have a big field like Galatas across the street.

Curb was also inbounds and we didnt have a football...just a tennis ball.

We played daily in front of Mark Raglands house on Valentine Court.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

weenie

I’m sure they played touch weenie, too
He did say ‘Kenner’ after all

 

[St. Widge]

I’m sure they played touch weenie, too

They didn't allow Pride Parades in The Parish in the 1970s and 1980s.

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[guidomerkinsrules]