It will be a few hours 3 or so a few mornings in a row. My son and I will continue the work after he leaves. My daughter will return before we finish and get the repairs done.

My Daughter is getting at the age were boy's interest is more serious. We cooked up a plan to see if the interest is genuine after the last boyfriend over a year ago. This is a local country boy, who offered to meet me, and help me. So in that manor, I am simply taking him up on the offer.

My daughter told him I would need to meet him, and that a great time to do it would be while cleaning the coop. She took pics, she told him the size and scope of the job.

He called me to make the offer. So yeah, that is a big plus in his favor.

As for compensation, I will drop him some money for the date with CJ after the fact. I want to see the worth of the boy when he is helping someone, not when he is being paid by someone. That may come later.

My wife is pretty much on board with this, she was just flabbergasted I came said as much to the guy when he called. She was a bit more surprised to learn my daughter and I cooked up this scheme over a year ago.

I think it's great.

There was a boy who came calling, he didn't make a point to introduce himself to me and he had a little man bun. He didn't last long

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Originally posted by DSgrouse:
It will be a few hours 3 or so a few mornings in a row...

We cooked up a plan to see if the interest is genuine after the last boyfriend over a year ago.

So you are expecting a minimum of 9 hrs of free manual labor out of it?
This isn't a boyfriend test; it's a husband test. She wants to see if he's marriage material. If he passes, don't be surprised if they are married within 12 months.

Sounds like a good plan to me. It's a good chance to test the young man's worth. If he will shovel chickenshit for no money, just to date your girl, he might be ok.

Let's see $20.00 per hour X 6 hours of mucking feces, + $60.00 for a nice meal ( including the tip) with the girl.

and he's agreeable?
I guess no downside.

Please keep us updated as to the actual outcome of this event. if he can complete the task then he might be a keeper. ...................drill sgt.

She better be outrageously hot, or he's just dumb.

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Originally posted by 46and2:
She better be outrageously hot, or he's just dumb.

</me looks at 46and2...> Srsly?

Maybe he just really likes her for who she is?

When I first visited my girlfriends house on an out of state visit I ended up on my back scraping the rust off a steel pontoon boat.

I don't think your plan is bad but it does seem like a few days is alot.

Been married to that girl for 44 years this June. And I own an aluminum pontoon boat!

My spouse of 35 years grew up farming ,
I was wondering her opinion,
She wants to know what is expected of the females that want to date your son?

That they join my wife in a month of roller derby training.

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Originally posted by 9x18:
When I first visited my girlfriends house on an out of state visit I ended up on my back scraping the rust off a steel pontoon boat.

I don't think your plan is bad but it does seem like a few days is alot.

Been married to that girl for 44 years this June. And I own an aluminum pontoon boat!

Beating the heat and humidity of the day. It could be done in 1 day, it would be miserable. I am breaking it up into 3 days.

I would have to be pretty invested to shovel shit for 9 hours. I was already working full time in high school, so 9 hours would of Been all of my free time. That’s like we are in a relationship not just going on the first date.

Your daughter is only seventeen. You should hope that nobody is serious enough about your daughter to shovel that shed for you.

It could backfire on her...

I started dating a girl and after a few weeks she wanted to have me hang out with her dad while he did some work on his cars and farm equipment. The girl and I were pretty different people, the dad and I actually got along well and he told her it would never last, I wasn't her type. She was pretty upset, but he was right.

I can't help but wonder what you would have done when you were his age and your future father-in-law and wife gave you that test.

At 17, I wouldn't have given that kind of request two thoughts, I'd have gladly accepted the chance.

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Originally posted by fiasconva:
I can't help but wonder what you would have done when you were his age and your future father-in-law and wife gave you that test.

yes, I did, Not a chicken coop, other stuff. Fuck I am doing it again on Wednesday. Married 23 years. No I don't think cleaning this out is a serious thing. It isn't hard work. It is just work. It will give me the measure of the guy.


Folks now a days are so work adverse. Work is, just work. It all sucks, shoveling shit isn't much worse than shoveling paper in an office. Both have chickens, cocks, and henpeckers. Just get out, get started and move forward.

I have been gone from the property for the last two summers, We stopped raising chickens back then. So this is dried, aged fertilizer. It is time to muck it out, sanitize it for the few birds we are going to get. I am not going back to raising 150 birds 3 times a year. 10-12 will suit us just fine.

For all those wondering about my daughter, her first job was at the gunstore. Her second was at Subway. She just finished her highschool CNA class, and will take her test for the CNA shortly. Since covid, she has been back at the gunstore.

She's a smart girl, thinking 20 steps ahead. She set this in motion. It will be good for her and him to know that I care enough to take the time.

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
It could backfire on her...

I started dating a girl and after a few weeks she wanted to have me hang out with her dad while he did some work on his cars and farm equipment. The girl and I were pretty different people, the dad and I actually got along well and he told her it would never last, I wasn't her type. She was pretty upset, but he was right.

Very much what my daughter is thinking. Like her mother, she holds her cards very close to her chest. He is a thinker and a planner. It would not surprise me if that plays a part in her choice for this.

I am with your wife and Bendable.

One: You have to trust your daughter. You raised her, she's going to pick guys that line up with your raising of her. You can gently keep your eye on a 17 year old, but they are damn near grown.

Two: It is not fair to the boy. He has to work to "earn" the chance to date your daughter? No, that isn't how it works.