snow shoveling contract

cold weather coming in fast in the cc it came to mind how i earned some spending money in the late 40's doing snowshoveling jobs. my 8th grade teacher miss hogan put her car away in a rented garage for the winter months like so many people did at that time. lots of garages were close to the alley which made the driveway very long, about 100 ft or so. when spring came people shoveled what snow remained after a long winter. hogie's car was garaged on tamarack and she lived on seventh with her batchelor bro. i knocked on her door one spring evening and asked her if she wanted her car shoveled out. she did and we agreed on a price of 5 dollars. the driveway had about a foot of snow and was about 100 ft long. when i started the job i soon had about 5 neighbor boys, jim richards, roy mukka, fred juopperi, lily lali ollila and peter herd noticing what i was up to. they all wanted a part of the action so i hired them for 50 cents a piece. it took two nites to complete the job. when we finished we went to hogies and she was surprised that i had done the job so quickly but when she saw all the boys with me she was going to give each of us 1 dollar. i said that was not the contract agreed upon. i said i will have the 5 agreed upon. she gave me a 5'er. i asked if she didn't have some ones and 50 cent pieces. she gave me 2 ones and the rest in change. i gave each of the boys 50 cents and pocketed the rest. she didn't like that but i paid the boys as promised and we were all happy.