Lemonade Stands

Melissa Forman talks about lemonade stands. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Jim, we have to talk about another lemonade
stand issue. Did you ever do lemonade stands when you
were a kid?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Of course you did, right, Oh, yes, of course, yeah, yeah,
you gotta love lemonade stands.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
All right, Well, apparently there's a Colorado homeowners association that
played the bad cop. They attempted to close down at
kid's lemonade stand.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Why does this happen? Why do the people do this?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
There's only a few joys in life. The lemonade stand
is one of them. Yes, So they attempted to close
it down, and the hoa of this homeowners association called
the sheriff and said the children were running an illegal
lemonade stand on county right of way. So the authorities
came out and they found the children were not No,

(00:45):
the children were not blocking the roadway.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
They did ask them to.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Move back from the road a few feet for their safety,
and some of the original parties who called the police
later came back and began yelling at the children, claiming
they were on private property.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
I mean, oh h, what is going on here? What
is going on here? I don't know, Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I did just bring it up. I wanted to. I
don't want to focus on these people, but it did
have me thinking about lemonade stands. What was the most
Do you remember the most amount of money that you
raised from your little lemonade stand?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Because that was always gee, No, that was so long ago.
I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Okay, I think that my brother and I once raised
fifty dollars and that was a really big deal way back.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
When did you pay taxes on that? I'm certain we did, Jack, Yeah,
But you know what now?

Speaker 1 (01:34):
The problem is like I was bike riding the other
day and the kids had a lemonade stand and I
wanted to turn around you, but I realized I don't
carry money, and I was like, do you guys seed
benmo or Zeller and the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
So I when I went up to the Glen View
Art Fair the other weekend, when I was driving back,
there were some kids having a lemonade stand. So I
decided to stop and I got some Yeah. So I
pulled up to the curb and I said, oh, I'll
take a class, and the girl literally goes there were
three of them sitting there. She's like, well, we were
on our lunch break. But I guess I could do it.

(02:06):
My mom will be back in a minute.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Okay, so did you get it?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
And then I did try to like mess with upy
like do you know the calories in this?

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Are there free refills?

Speaker 1 (02:16):
So wait, what did you finally pay?

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Then? How did you pay? It was just a dollar?
Oh I had a dollar on me.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Oh you had a dollar on you? Like, I'm actually amazed,
because again, Jim, I never have money.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
I usually don't either. I just happened to have one.
I don't know why I had one.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, okay, because like these kids did.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
I finally said, like, do have Venmo?

Speaker 1 (02:33):
They're like yeah, And I had pulled around and I
venmoed the kid like I gave him extra because it
was for a charity, but it was five dollars a yeah,
and I was cracking up.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
I'm like, it's just all right.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Let us So do you have a lemonade stand? How
much did you make as a kid? You got any
funny lemonade stand stories? I love it? And please if
you see one, I mean, don't call a cops, Like,
what's wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (02:56):
I mean that's just I know it's wrong.