I really dislike squeegee kids who come running up to my car at a busy intersection when I’m stopped at a red light, and without saying anything, start rubbing a dirty rag or squegee on my windshield, and then expect to be paid.
Hate it! almost as much as a telemarketing call, which is really saying something.
Have they not noticed that most cars have wipers and washer fluid? if I want my windshield cleaned, I have the means to do it.
And expecting to be paid for doing something I’ve not asked for?? Ha! forget that that! it’s extortion, pure and simple.
But I bide my time.
I wait until he’s leaning forward over the windshield, ignoring my handwaving to get him to go away.
Then I hit the “squirt the squeegee kid” button.
Squirted him up, real good.
Oh, and don’t get me started on squeegee kids on my lawn …
The shot would have been a lot more effective if it came from a .357 magnum. You don’t see many squeegee kids in Detroit or Compton for that reason. When on the mean streets, you got to mean business.
*Well, I see the kid a-comin’
He’s stepping off the curb
And I’m wavin’ my hands at him
I say, “Do not disturb,”
But I’m stuck here in my Chevy
Until the light turns green–
And that kid just keeps on comin’
Gonna make my windshield clean.
When I was learnin’ to drive
My teacher said, “By gar!
Don’t ever let a squeegee-er
Get anywhere near your car.”
So I shot him the kid with fluid
Just to watch him cry
It’s no way to make a living
I gotta wonder why.*
“Squeegee Kid Blues,” ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, and goodnight!
There are squeegee kids in Regina? Is the entry-level employment situation there not roughly the same as here? There are Tim Horton’s here offering attendance bonuses. Eyes about popped out of my head when I saw that on the Now Hiring sign. Attendance bonuses! When I was doing entry level jobs my attendance bonus was that I didn’t get fired.
they tend to be hitchhikers, or “hanging-out” kids who seem content to hang out on the mall and ask for spare change. the way they dress I wouldn’t hire them, dang kids.
[Piper is particularly grumpy and old this weekend.]
to add insult to injury, his squeegee would likely be exempt from seizure under a writ because it’s his work tool… dang kids! get a job and earn some money so I can sue you for intentional startlement!
We have squeegee kids and panhandlers galore here in Victoria, and the Tim Horton’s my husband and I stopped at last night was advertising a HIRING FAIR, with leaflets and sandwich board type displays touting the benefits of working there. Help Wanted signs everywhere (mostly in retail, but that’s where I’m noticing it) and still…
Seasonal jobs have done that for a long time. Around the Wisconsin Dells they needed you to work through the tourist season. Not collecting $1,000 at the end of the year was good incentive to not quit two weeks early.
Intentional infliction of mental suffering? Forget the “startlement” provision of the statute; go straight for the private tort. (Gah, I’m thinking like an ambulance chaser already! :eek: )
I dunno…having read the applicable sections in Ontario’s Safe Streets Act, the Saskatchewan Traffic Safety Act’s s. 214(4) seems deceptively simple in comparison. Maybe drafting something new for Saskatchewan is needed, if the squeegee kids in Regina become the problem they were in Toronto.
Yes, but Tim Horton’s is hardly a seasonal job. It’s a fast-food coffee/donut/sandwich chain–think “giving attendance bonuses to McDonald’s workers” and you’ve got the idea. And yes, Tim’s and other fast-food joints, as well as other traditionally low-paying jobs, are offering high wages and various bonuses here in Calgary as well.
Hey, southern Ontarians! Come West and get the jobs that need filling! Contrary to what they teach in Toronto schools, you will not fall off the edge of the world if you go west of Winnipeg.
Does “squeegee kid” mean anything besides a person who cleans your car windows?
There’s an episode of Instant Star (a Canadian show) that has the lead and her friend stop to eat at a Chinese place. The owner comes over all agitated and tells them that “We don’t serve squeegee kids.”
This confused me because:
a. they were musicians, not window washers - they didn’t coincidentally have any supplies for window washing with them either.
b. that seems really rude and randomly discriminatory
So are there stereotypes surrounding these kids other than being persistent?
