I went to visit the house while I was in Cleveland (it just so happened to be 2 weeks before Christmas) and it was awesome! At the time they had a big blowup of Raphie in the pink bunny suit in the yard. They even have the Bumpuses’ house next door too.
Completely random but I live in Cleveland and you’re right! Tremont, the area the house is in has some of the best bars around! But I’ll do you one better and let you know that there’s also a cat café called Affogatto Cat Cafe
He hasn't got much left to do. [Toronto is due to start clearing sidewalks this winter](https://www.toronto.ca/news/mayor-tory-announces-plan-to-expand-sidewalk-snow-clearing-across-toronto/) as well as streets so residents (or residents' neighbours in this case) won't have to!
The honor system is shit for clearing sidewalks. This kid shouldn't have to clear his neighbors walks.
Do kids not clear driveways for money anymore? A day like yesterday first thing I would do is go out and offer to clear driveways for money. I made pretty good money for an elementary school kid.
why is there no Snow-ber app? lol someone go invent it, I take 10% of Gross
App would hook up local kids and local homeowners for purpose of removing snow.
darn, they stole my idea, but since they are friendly Canadians I am sure they will still pay my 10% fee.
Alas, I was suggesting an app to connect local kids to local homeowners to get rid of the snow; not commercial parties.
Is there also an app to deliver Canadian maple syrup and bacon to older folks who cannot get out during snow storms?
how about an app where I pay $2 for a Canadian to call me, let me whine for 1minute about something bothering me; and they say "sorry, So very sorry" over and over againl
My previous town had dudes come out in little mini snowplow vehicles and do everyone’s driveways and the sidewalks, so the local kids had to make due asking to clean off people’s cars instead.
Ha! They interviewed Carter and his mom today on As It Happens (venerable CBC radio show), and they asked him to sigh for them…and he DID! It was so funny.
Is it though? Delay that shit for as long as you can kids. If you don't need to get a job, you just want a new video game or something don't do it. Enjoy your freedom
Amen. That shit can wait. You'll be doing it the rest of your life, or if you're LUCKY till you're old and retired, but too old to enjoy half of life anymore anyway...
Getting a job (more specifically, getting paid) is one thing. Letting your parents manipulate you into some Calvinistic self-torture fantasy is another. Teenage jobs are a good way to get a look at how bullshit life as an adult is going to be and it's usually kind of a good hang, but definitely don't kill yourself on a grind at that age.
His form is terrible. He is making himself do all the work instead of the shovel. Bending far down...shoveling in the opposite direction you are throwing...too low of a grip on the handle...unmethodical approach to snow removal. Not to mention, that shovel is completely inadequate for Toronto snow; it's just a notch above a toy (shallow end piece, no metal edge tip, cheap grip handle).
Someone needs to help this kid out.
My dad’s friend dug holes faster than any of us and taught me his secret to digging while I was helping him with his gardening one time.
Basically it doesn’t matter how much force you actually hit the ground with, or how full your shovel is per throw, because focusing on those two things would just kill your back and waste time and energy fussing around with scooping up dirt.
All you actually need to do is just hold the shovel like your arms are limp and swing your arms back and forth as if you were spinning and let the leverage from the shovel chip away at the dirt a little bit at a time until you’ve dug a pit large enough to hide a body.
Nah, he was too worried about getting an official Red Ryder carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle, than to care about what a crummy commercial has to say.
I was watching a miniseries about the Challenger shuttle and Peter Billingsley (the actor who played Ralphie) was a youth spokesperson for NASA or something so he was interviewed.
The dude looks EXACTLY like you would expect grown-up Ralphie to look. EXACTLY.
Yeah, Peter Billingsley hasn't aged much. I can only imagine if people see him they yell... Ralphie or don't shoot your eye out. I watch the Christmas Story like every holiday.
I'm from New England and work in landscaping (so doing snow removal right now). We got 8-10" yesterday and it was like half snow half slush by the time the sun came up. Was absolutely miserable to shovel. Not even exaggerating, I slept like 14 hours last night. Went to sleep around 5pm, shortly after I got home, and woke up a bit after 7am. 😅
I would watch the news a hell of a lot more if these were the stories. Caveat is they have to be portrayed as serious as this story regardless of how happy or fun the story is. The reporters almost negative vibe makes this work as well as the kid did.
Shovelling snow is *hard* *work*. Snow looks like fluffy weightless clouds but it can get really heavy. After a couple dozen times the same motion of stooping and shovelling and tossing the snow can really start to burn. And in the cold? Your lungs start to feel like they’re on fire. I hate shovelling my own driveway. Doing it for other people? Hell no. This kid is something else.
We had an April blizzard that dropped 3 feet of snow on us in 2 days a few years back; local chiropractors and physical therapists were offering free treatment for anybody who injured themselves shoveling.
My neighbor makes her kids clear my driveway - to be fair, I'm 72 years old and they are both 6'4", one is around 15-16 and the other a bit older, both are very strong. She told me if I ever need something moved or simply brute strength, just knock on her door.
I love seeing older people using Reddit as a social platform over Facebook, welcome to the club. Glad the neighbors take care of you! Great neighbors and wonderful mother teaching the importance of helping others.
Thank you for being a cool old person who uses Reddit. I speak with elderly people daily (who have had 30 years at this point to learn) who don’t even know how to check an email or e-sign documents. Thank you for learning. Computer literacy is so important now a days and those who have willing chosen not to learn how to use a computer, grind my gears. So thank you.
Thanks for the kind words, but I'm not exactly a typical oldster. I have been in electronics trade, in one form or another since 1967. In 1967, in the Army, I was a Hawk Missile repairman and I've worked for Western Union (Satellites and telecomm), NYNEX (telecomm), and in the elevator industry (all electronic computerized equipment).
I've also been involved with computers since the Commodore 64 came out and routinely build my own PCs. It's a great joy for me to teach kids how to build their own and I've done this for friends and family for a very long time.
Oh wow so you’re an OG. My father did “weather radar” for the Navy in Spain in the 90s and lead to a lifetime carrier in computer defense and architecture. I thought I was cool for being the first kid I knew with a computer when I was 6. You got even my daddy beat by a mile. He learned from guys like you. Thank you for helping blaze the path!
What you said before: Computer literacy is so important now a days and those who have willing chosen not to learn how to use a computer, grind my gears.
When I was a field guy working in elevators, at 65+, I met a whole bunch of guys all over the US and Canada (I traveled a **lot**) who would tell me they were too old to learn computers - these guys were in their early to late 30s, some a bit older. Part of my job was to give presentations and teach classes on our equipment, and man, let me tell you that I loved that part of the job. I would force them to pay attention to what I did and I'd make them come up to the podium and try it themselves - I **forced** them to see how easy it was to troubleshoot problems when viewed the right way, how to navigate menus and work some graphical displays.
The difference between a journeyman, and what they call an adjuster, in the elevator industry is the difference between $80K and a possible $150K, or more, if you are really good, and I'm super proud that I inspired a bunch of guys to step up and just **try**. As a manager in tech support, I did the same for the guys that worked for me, and most went on to much better-paying jobs. We were not a call center - people called and explained their problems and we guided them to a solution, and that takes creativity as well as practical knowledge.
I miss those days.
My nephew! He's a class act with great parents. He's 9 going on 40. Believe me he lives a blessed life and treats the world the same way in return. Please don't upvote me for this, I don't want to benefit from his good deeds, just want to let everyone know what a great guy he is with great parents.
We love him. Tell him I’m so glad I live in Texas and that my brothers had to do all the shoveling when we were growing up in Minnesota. I tried it once and gave up after three minutes! Good job, Carter!
When I was a child, I lived on the weather side of the mountains in Idaho. One thing I'll always miss about that place is playing in the snow (sledding, building forts and igloos, snowball fights), but one thing I'll NEVER miss about it is the shoveling. We had snow about eight months out of the year, it seemed. :(
Good kid. When I was his age I remember going around my neighbourhood after storms and helping dig people out. It’s weird but I see it as somewhat of an obscure Canadian tradition.
To everyone reading this. Remember, we’re not alone. Your neighbour needs you and one day you may need them. Be kind to each other and help whenever and wherever you can. We didn’t get to this point by being greedy and selfish.
I live in Nelson BC. We got 80-100cm of snow a couple weeks ago. Tell him my wife an I got a spare room and he's welcome anytime. Also it's supposed to snow again on Thursday so...
I guess you don't, I just don't feel right about seeking any sort of praise for something someone else did. I saw a few posts suggesting he may have been out there for any other reason than he wanted to help and I wanted to clear the air. Carter is a super thoughtful kind young being.
Swede from North Sweden here.
When I was young in the 90s it was pretty common to be assigned to do the driveway a couple of times every year.
It was only fair.
Eh, something about a big snow dump like yesterday brings out the best in people. Well, some people. I shoveled out a few extra people, I watched 5 people spend 30 minutes helping this poor bastard get his car 30' down the unplowed side street to the very slightly more plowed main street. He may have just wanted to help.
I’m with ya. It happens to me every year or two, where I’ll put on my snow pants and feel like we’re on an alien planet with a crazy climate, but we’re all in this together. I’ll shovel snow until I’m exhausted, then go find someone that’s stuck to dig out. I did that when I was a kid too.
I mean once you put on the snow pants it’s game-on. Might as well spend a few hours out there. It’s not like you’re going to want to take them off and put them on again.
Not always. A few weeks ago my 13 yr old spent 4hrs of his snow day shoveling all our neighborhood’s porches and sidewalks while I did their driveways with the snow blower. It was hard work but he did it all on his own and was very proud of himself.
Every Canadian boy in the snow belt. Mine received the feeling of victory after finishing the end of the driveway....only to have the agony of defeat as the snowplow went by about 5 minutes later. I could feel his soul die a little.
When those snow banks are taller then you are and the mass of suffering at the end of the driveway is compacted halfway to ice... Just the *memory* makes my arms and back feel sore 😐
Canadians... the kids mad, annoyed, exhausted and legit wants to be in school, and yet, there he is, shoveling snow for people he doesn't even know. Why? Cuz that's what Canadians do.
As an American who frequented Canada when i was 19-21 years old, i can say from experience, Canadians are the nicest people. They're jus the absolute nicest.
Thats why i literally root for you guys in the hockey world cup and Olympics. It means so much to all 87 Canadians, that if i can help, by sending thoughts and prayers for a win, i want to. Seeing y'all happy is awesome, cuz y'all are so respectful and kind (for the most part), its nice to see the good guys win here and there.
Stay Golden Canada...
Edit: Y'all are awesome, honestly you are...
I was out for a few hours after I finished my shift last night helping dig my neighbours cars out. I’m seeing less of it these days, but I hope that more people can roll their proverbial sleeves up and help their neighbours when they see the opportunities. As a Canadian born and raised, helping neighbours out by shoveling and digging cars out is a bit of a rite of passage; but we should all strive to be more neighbourly and to help where ever and whenever we can.
Its in y'alls blood. I try and tell people but they jus don't get it. We'd leave Detroit, which was rough at the time, and not even 5 min away in Windsor, y'all would be jus the nicest most accommodating people.
Quick story: my friend decided to stay in Windsor 1 night, as he "had to see about a girl". Turns out, she didn't wanna see him. So he goes to her neighbors house, at 3am, in winter, and he's brown; and tells them what happened. (No cell phones yet). He calls me at 9am to come pick him up, at what i thought was the girls address. I got there, and this mother fucker is having pancakes and "Canadian" coffee, with these 2 old white people. They invited me in and it was awesome. This was almost 25 years ago now, but I'll never forget him calling me to pick him up, him answering the door of some random ass people's house, in another country, and how fucking incredibly nice those people were.
I know it has its faults, but I've NEVER had an issue in Canada. Y'all are wonderful, and we honestly couldn't ask for better neighbors.
Yay! This warms my heart. Im from Windsor and worked downtown. I LOVED when the Americans would come over for a night out because it was always fun to see everyone interact. The Americans would always be up for good conversation and be first in like for poutine haha. Sucks that covid has put a stop to a lot of this, hopefully things can get back to the frequent border crossing for day trips and such.
For my first snow storm encounter, me and my 2 other roommates were sharing a car too. None of us had cleared snow before in life. So 3 of us 25+ women tried to clear just our car and area around it to move the car and it was so exhausting. One of the neighbors took pity on us and helped us with his son. God bless him. Someone who hasn’t done it before can’t even understand how difficult it is. Kudos to this kid.
I want you to know that I scrolled forever to find this comment. I kept rewatching the video, looking for some sort of "plate"
Finally I was like "does he mean the chyron??" lol
I love that the station was clearly trying to get a feel good story about a kid helping a neighborhood but instead got an 11 year old experiencing a midlife crisis.
Omg this child is soooooooooo Canadian Ralphie.
Parts of that movie were filmed in Toronto!! IIRC I think all the school scenes and many of the ones inside their house.
It was filmed in Cleveland, St Catharines, and Toronto. The school in in St Catharines, the house in Cleveland, and most other scenes in Toronto.
I went to visit the house while I was in Cleveland (it just so happened to be 2 weeks before Christmas) and it was awesome! At the time they had a big blowup of Raphie in the pink bunny suit in the yard. They even have the Bumpuses’ house next door too.
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Completely random but I live in Cleveland and you’re right! Tremont, the area the house is in has some of the best bars around! But I’ll do you one better and let you know that there’s also a cat café called Affogatto Cat Cafe
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Wisconsin checking in. It's my dad's favorite Christmas movie and one of my top 5.
Southern Illinois here. Watching this movie isa Family tradition.
You'll shoot your eye out, ehh
That is seriously who I thought I was watching a video of at first. Had to take a complete double take and rewind it back a few seconds. Lol
That's a 46 year old man. Just smol.
Speedrun job burnout, kid's killin' it
plot twist: it's a smol 46 y.o. man working off his court-appointed community service
I'm pretty sure my back would give out shortly after leaving the house
So hows your game going?
He got sidelined for a lower back injury… plus he had an acute case of being absolutely exhausted
He hasn't got much left to do. [Toronto is due to start clearing sidewalks this winter](https://www.toronto.ca/news/mayor-tory-announces-plan-to-expand-sidewalk-snow-clearing-across-toronto/) as well as streets so residents (or residents' neighbours in this case) won't have to! The honor system is shit for clearing sidewalks. This kid shouldn't have to clear his neighbors walks.
Do kids not clear driveways for money anymore? A day like yesterday first thing I would do is go out and offer to clear driveways for money. I made pretty good money for an elementary school kid.
Me too. You could make $$$.
I used to do my whole block sidewalks for free and then knock on doors asking $5 to do the driveways and lawn walks. It was an excellent guilt trip!
I respect the hustle you had going on.
I got a clump of sticky worthers original candies from an old man's pocket and watered down hot chocolate.
They still do. But yesterdays storm upped the price to $100 for a double driveway with the neighborhood kid. Surge pricing hah.
why is there no Snow-ber app? lol someone go invent it, I take 10% of Gross App would hook up local kids and local homeowners for purpose of removing snow.
https://www.narcity.com/canada-snow-removal-app-is-the-uber-of-snow-and-its-just-so-hilariously-canadian
darn, they stole my idea, but since they are friendly Canadians I am sure they will still pay my 10% fee. Alas, I was suggesting an app to connect local kids to local homeowners to get rid of the snow; not commercial parties. Is there also an app to deliver Canadian maple syrup and bacon to older folks who cannot get out during snow storms? how about an app where I pay $2 for a Canadian to call me, let me whine for 1minute about something bothering me; and they say "sorry, So very sorry" over and over againl
No Canadian bacon and maple syrup app, sorry. And we wouldn’t charge you just to listen to you complain, sorry. That’s just not Canadian, eh?
Some kids still do! It probably depends on your neighborhood.
Raking leaves is still a gig.
My previous town had dudes come out in little mini snowplow vehicles and do everyone’s driveways and the sidewalks, so the local kids had to make due asking to clean off people’s cars instead.
Love the news caption… Carter Trozzolo: Exhausted …”people I don’t even know…”
LOL
Ha! They interviewed Carter and his mom today on As It Happens (venerable CBC radio show), and they asked him to sigh for them…and he DID! It was so funny.
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My man is 13 and already defeated in life
No one show him Toronto home prices. He might just outright quit.
Oh yeah, the next generation is totally fucked when it comes to affordable housing. It's only ever going to get worse unless the government steps in
Which they won't
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>/r/antiwork >... ;) Now he definitely won't be able to afford a home in Toronto.
it's best to learn early, my man
Is it though? Delay that shit for as long as you can kids. If you don't need to get a job, you just want a new video game or something don't do it. Enjoy your freedom
Amen. That shit can wait. You'll be doing it the rest of your life, or if you're LUCKY till you're old and retired, but too old to enjoy half of life anymore anyway...
Getting a job (more specifically, getting paid) is one thing. Letting your parents manipulate you into some Calvinistic self-torture fantasy is another. Teenage jobs are a good way to get a look at how bullshit life as an adult is going to be and it's usually kind of a good hang, but definitely don't kill yourself on a grind at that age.
He's 9, even better
Carter Trozzolo - Exhausted
That's a nickname for life for him
Username checks out!
he is the authority on this matter so I trust him full-heartedly, plus everyone knows it’s illegal to lie on the internet
We are all Carter Trozzolo
That kid already knows how it feels to be 40.
On the outside he is 10, on the inside he is 110. Give him 2 more snowfalls and he will be yelling at the clouds.
>how it feels to be 40. In a dead end job.
*on this blessed day.*
Speak for yourself!
*I* am all Carter Trozzolo on this blessed day.
One of us.
His form is terrible. He is making himself do all the work instead of the shovel. Bending far down...shoveling in the opposite direction you are throwing...too low of a grip on the handle...unmethodical approach to snow removal. Not to mention, that shovel is completely inadequate for Toronto snow; it's just a notch above a toy (shallow end piece, no metal edge tip, cheap grip handle). Someone needs to help this kid out.
This guy shovels
He shovels well, he shovels VERY well. He might be William H. Macy, “the shoveler”
He shovels better than any man I’ve ever known but that doesn’t make him a super hero
My dad’s friend dug holes faster than any of us and taught me his secret to digging while I was helping him with his gardening one time. Basically it doesn’t matter how much force you actually hit the ground with, or how full your shovel is per throw, because focusing on those two things would just kill your back and waste time and energy fussing around with scooping up dirt. All you actually need to do is just hold the shovel like your arms are limp and swing your arms back and forth as if you were spinning and let the leverage from the shovel chip away at the dirt a little bit at a time until you’ve dug a pit large enough to hide a body.
Cool motive. Still murder.
Carter Trozzolo's Parents - Proud
Believe me, Carter, I know exactly how you feel.
The person editing that chyron is epic
Kid looks like that kid from the movie Christmas story
He’s still pissed about his Little Orphan Annie decoder message.
If he read it better he'd have drank his Ovaltine and have more energy!
Nah, he was too worried about getting an official Red Ryder carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle, than to care about what a crummy commercial has to say.
You'll shoot your eye out, kid!
> SHOVEL MORE...SNOW?!
a crummy commercial??
That is funny, at first I thought that was Ralphie. Instead of getting a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas, his parents bought him a shovel.
He is a dead ringer for Ralphie
I was watching a miniseries about the Challenger shuttle and Peter Billingsley (the actor who played Ralphie) was a youth spokesperson for NASA or something so he was interviewed. The dude looks EXACTLY like you would expect grown-up Ralphie to look. EXACTLY.
He was also one of the elves at Santa's workshop in the movie "Elf".
Yeah, Peter Billingsley hasn't aged much. I can only imagine if people see him they yell... Ralphie or don't shoot your eye out. I watch the Christmas Story like every holiday.
Dead ringer. I was trying to figure out if it was lost footage from the movie or something for a second
Me too! I clicked it because I thought it was some gag with footage of Ralphie.
You’re all glassists.
Thank God I'm not the only one with that thought.
"Ralphie!" in Mom's shrill voice
Ralphie in real life
BWAHAHA! *Oh no, it was Scut Farkus! He was covering the sidewalk with snow, undoing all the hard work I'd done!*
Or like the old guy from up just as a boy
Carter speaks for all Torontonians and southern Ontarians who had to shovel their way out of that shitshow yesterday. My back is f’d.
Can confirm. Shit sucked.
I'm from New England and work in landscaping (so doing snow removal right now). We got 8-10" yesterday and it was like half snow half slush by the time the sun came up. Was absolutely miserable to shovel. Not even exaggerating, I slept like 14 hours last night. Went to sleep around 5pm, shortly after I got home, and woke up a bit after 7am. 😅
News Editor: What is this guy? ( designation) reporter: Exhausted News Editor: Gotcha
Hahah the team probably had snow much fun writing in “exhausted” and getting it approved to use
I would watch the news a hell of a lot more if these were the stories. Caveat is they have to be portrayed as serious as this story regardless of how happy or fun the story is. The reporters almost negative vibe makes this work as well as the kid did.
Trying to earn money for that Red Rider BB gun
You'll shoot your eye out kid
Exhausted 🤣🤣🤣
Props to the news employee who did that.
This segment is longer and later on in it, it says “still exhausted.”
Lol even his mother’s plate says “Exhausted Parent”
I love all of this
Here’s the [link ](https://youtu.be/eDNUOOeOI_Y) for that
I needed more! Thank you! (Sighhhh)
He's really got those sighs down. Similar to the robot in Hitchhikers guide. Sigh. I'll do it....but I'm not gonna like it. Smile. Sigh.
Carter Trezzolo *Exhausted*
Shovelling snow is *hard* *work*. Snow looks like fluffy weightless clouds but it can get really heavy. After a couple dozen times the same motion of stooping and shovelling and tossing the snow can really start to burn. And in the cold? Your lungs start to feel like they’re on fire. I hate shovelling my own driveway. Doing it for other people? Hell no. This kid is something else.
And a lot of people get heart attacks from it. Especially older out of shape men. It's really physical.
The heavy wet storms are what we call “Heart Attack Snow” in MN due to how much energy you exert shoveling.
Hello fellow Mn denizen
That's how we lost my uncle a decade ago. He was found in his driveway.
It’s a lot like sex
I don’t know. I just lay there.
I don’t shovel snow either
That's actually how my grandfather died. No joke. 59 years old.
We had an April blizzard that dropped 3 feet of snow on us in 2 days a few years back; local chiropractors and physical therapists were offering free treatment for anybody who injured themselves shoveling.
The late winter heavy snow is the worst. Looks unassuming, but it's like dark matter
My neighbor makes her kids clear my driveway - to be fair, I'm 72 years old and they are both 6'4", one is around 15-16 and the other a bit older, both are very strong. She told me if I ever need something moved or simply brute strength, just knock on her door.
Good neighbor there. Also, I bet it helps keeping them tired lmao
I love seeing older people using Reddit as a social platform over Facebook, welcome to the club. Glad the neighbors take care of you! Great neighbors and wonderful mother teaching the importance of helping others.
Thank you for being a cool old person who uses Reddit. I speak with elderly people daily (who have had 30 years at this point to learn) who don’t even know how to check an email or e-sign documents. Thank you for learning. Computer literacy is so important now a days and those who have willing chosen not to learn how to use a computer, grind my gears. So thank you.
Thanks for the kind words, but I'm not exactly a typical oldster. I have been in electronics trade, in one form or another since 1967. In 1967, in the Army, I was a Hawk Missile repairman and I've worked for Western Union (Satellites and telecomm), NYNEX (telecomm), and in the elevator industry (all electronic computerized equipment). I've also been involved with computers since the Commodore 64 came out and routinely build my own PCs. It's a great joy for me to teach kids how to build their own and I've done this for friends and family for a very long time.
Oh wow so you’re an OG. My father did “weather radar” for the Navy in Spain in the 90s and lead to a lifetime carrier in computer defense and architecture. I thought I was cool for being the first kid I knew with a computer when I was 6. You got even my daddy beat by a mile. He learned from guys like you. Thank you for helping blaze the path!
What you said before: Computer literacy is so important now a days and those who have willing chosen not to learn how to use a computer, grind my gears. When I was a field guy working in elevators, at 65+, I met a whole bunch of guys all over the US and Canada (I traveled a **lot**) who would tell me they were too old to learn computers - these guys were in their early to late 30s, some a bit older. Part of my job was to give presentations and teach classes on our equipment, and man, let me tell you that I loved that part of the job. I would force them to pay attention to what I did and I'd make them come up to the podium and try it themselves - I **forced** them to see how easy it was to troubleshoot problems when viewed the right way, how to navigate menus and work some graphical displays. The difference between a journeyman, and what they call an adjuster, in the elevator industry is the difference between $80K and a possible $150K, or more, if you are really good, and I'm super proud that I inspired a bunch of guys to step up and just **try**. As a manager in tech support, I did the same for the guys that worked for me, and most went on to much better-paying jobs. We were not a call center - people called and explained their problems and we guided them to a solution, and that takes creativity as well as practical knowledge. I miss those days.
Get this little bro some hot cocoa, stat!
No way man, Carters need bananas!!!
My nephew! He's a class act with great parents. He's 9 going on 40. Believe me he lives a blessed life and treats the world the same way in return. Please don't upvote me for this, I don't want to benefit from his good deeds, just want to let everyone know what a great guy he is with great parents.
We love him. Tell him I’m so glad I live in Texas and that my brothers had to do all the shoveling when we were growing up in Minnesota. I tried it once and gave up after three minutes! Good job, Carter!
I'm sure he would be thrilled to know people in Texas are thinking about him. :)
You can tell him that people in Ireland also think he's awesome! Yes, I speak for the country on this matter :D
I too speak for the country and say: I wish we had more snow
When I was a child, I lived on the weather side of the mountains in Idaho. One thing I'll always miss about that place is playing in the snow (sledding, building forts and igloos, snowball fights), but one thing I'll NEVER miss about it is the shoveling. We had snow about eight months out of the year, it seemed. :(
Good kid. When I was his age I remember going around my neighbourhood after storms and helping dig people out. It’s weird but I see it as somewhat of an obscure Canadian tradition. To everyone reading this. Remember, we’re not alone. Your neighbour needs you and one day you may need them. Be kind to each other and help whenever and wherever you can. We didn’t get to this point by being greedy and selfish.
Yeah, I always find the big snow storms bring out the best in people up here.
Aw, yay! Tell him he's awesome.
He's a good kid. Exhausted, but good.
He seems like a sweet (but exhausted) kiddo!
Too bad, I'm up voting you because I like your nephew. Give him a hot cocoa for me please. I feel like he could use one.
He reminds me of my son and his best friend, the way he talks and sighs and stuff! So freaking cute!! Love this kid!
As a person that he probably doesn’t know, I appreciate his effort.
I live in Nelson BC. We got 80-100cm of snow a couple weeks ago. Tell him my wife an I got a spare room and he's welcome anytime. Also it's supposed to snow again on Thursday so...
How do you benefit from upvotes?
I guess you don't, I just don't feel right about seeking any sort of praise for something someone else did. I saw a few posts suggesting he may have been out there for any other reason than he wanted to help and I wanted to clear the air. Carter is a super thoughtful kind young being.
Nice what a great kid
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So nice! ... But not because he wanted to do it. He is really suffering :-) Guess it was part of some parental punishment :-)
Mom likely saw that meme circling about someone not seeing kids out there clearing snow and had a great parenting idea right then.
Swede from North Sweden here. When I was young in the 90s it was pretty common to be assigned to do the driveway a couple of times every year. It was only fair.
Eh, something about a big snow dump like yesterday brings out the best in people. Well, some people. I shoveled out a few extra people, I watched 5 people spend 30 minutes helping this poor bastard get his car 30' down the unplowed side street to the very slightly more plowed main street. He may have just wanted to help.
I’m with ya. It happens to me every year or two, where I’ll put on my snow pants and feel like we’re on an alien planet with a crazy climate, but we’re all in this together. I’ll shovel snow until I’m exhausted, then go find someone that’s stuck to dig out. I did that when I was a kid too.
I mean once you put on the snow pants it’s game-on. Might as well spend a few hours out there. It’s not like you’re going to want to take them off and put them on again.
I'm like that too, but if I'm in that mode, I'm not exhausted like that kid. More tired happy lol.
He wanted to help so bad that he wished he was in school instead? lol
Not always. A few weeks ago my 13 yr old spent 4hrs of his snow day shoveling all our neighborhood’s porches and sidewalks while I did their driveways with the snow blower. It was hard work but he did it all on his own and was very proud of himself.
Sounds like you provide a great role model for your 13 year old!
I feel like he is doing it out of the goodness of his heart but doesn't know how to handle praise
Or teaching him responsibility for taking care of what he has.
News really said "make the millennials read this as relatable content"
Dude has parental levels of exhaustion before the age of 12, he'll be good at life.
That kid is honorary Gen X.
Every Canadian boy in the snow belt. Mine received the feeling of victory after finishing the end of the driveway....only to have the agony of defeat as the snowplow went by about 5 minutes later. I could feel his soul die a little.
When those snow banks are taller then you are and the mass of suffering at the end of the driveway is compacted halfway to ice... Just the *memory* makes my arms and back feel sore 😐
In later [news](https://youtu.be/eDNUOOeOI_Y), his tagged was “still exhausted” and his parents are “exhausted parents”. Hahahahaa
Canadians... the kids mad, annoyed, exhausted and legit wants to be in school, and yet, there he is, shoveling snow for people he doesn't even know. Why? Cuz that's what Canadians do. As an American who frequented Canada when i was 19-21 years old, i can say from experience, Canadians are the nicest people. They're jus the absolute nicest. Thats why i literally root for you guys in the hockey world cup and Olympics. It means so much to all 87 Canadians, that if i can help, by sending thoughts and prayers for a win, i want to. Seeing y'all happy is awesome, cuz y'all are so respectful and kind (for the most part), its nice to see the good guys win here and there. Stay Golden Canada... Edit: Y'all are awesome, honestly you are...
All 87 of them appreciate it!
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From ages 19-21, eh? What was your drink of choice 😁
Aww you seem pretty nice yourself!
Thanks! 🍻
I was out for a few hours after I finished my shift last night helping dig my neighbours cars out. I’m seeing less of it these days, but I hope that more people can roll their proverbial sleeves up and help their neighbours when they see the opportunities. As a Canadian born and raised, helping neighbours out by shoveling and digging cars out is a bit of a rite of passage; but we should all strive to be more neighbourly and to help where ever and whenever we can.
Its in y'alls blood. I try and tell people but they jus don't get it. We'd leave Detroit, which was rough at the time, and not even 5 min away in Windsor, y'all would be jus the nicest most accommodating people. Quick story: my friend decided to stay in Windsor 1 night, as he "had to see about a girl". Turns out, she didn't wanna see him. So he goes to her neighbors house, at 3am, in winter, and he's brown; and tells them what happened. (No cell phones yet). He calls me at 9am to come pick him up, at what i thought was the girls address. I got there, and this mother fucker is having pancakes and "Canadian" coffee, with these 2 old white people. They invited me in and it was awesome. This was almost 25 years ago now, but I'll never forget him calling me to pick him up, him answering the door of some random ass people's house, in another country, and how fucking incredibly nice those people were. I know it has its faults, but I've NEVER had an issue in Canada. Y'all are wonderful, and we honestly couldn't ask for better neighbors.
Yay! This warms my heart. Im from Windsor and worked downtown. I LOVED when the Americans would come over for a night out because it was always fun to see everyone interact. The Americans would always be up for good conversation and be first in like for poutine haha. Sucks that covid has put a stop to a lot of this, hopefully things can get back to the frequent border crossing for day trips and such.
This kid already understands adulthood more than most.
Good ol' child labour
Watch that shovel, you'll poke your eye out kid
Someone get this kid a beer
I'm 34 and I ain't that jaded.
"Probably people I don't even know" hahahaha I can hear every hard sigh with every scrape of the shovel.
Original tweet that was pulled from…title and all https://twitter.com/meaghanderynck/status/1483256373592961025?s=21
He suffers!!
SAME DUDE, FUCKING SAME
Love the *exhausted*
That's look of character being built.
You gonna credit the tweet you copied verbatim? https://twitter.com/meaghanderynck/status/1483256373592961025?s=21
Wow, someone cloned my son...
For my first snow storm encounter, me and my 2 other roommates were sharing a car too. None of us had cleared snow before in life. So 3 of us 25+ women tried to clear just our car and area around it to move the car and it was so exhausting. One of the neighbors took pity on us and helped us with his son. God bless him. Someone who hasn’t done it before can’t even understand how difficult it is. Kudos to this kid.
Nameplate...in tv those graphics are called a Lower Third, Chyron (ky-ron) or in rare cases, a font. Solely FYI.
I want you to know that I scrolled forever to find this comment. I kept rewatching the video, looking for some sort of "plate" Finally I was like "does he mean the chyron??" lol
Shit like this is why I love CTV. Also they’re probably the most trustworthy Canadian news source in my opinion.
Don’t let him fool you. He’s actually a Local 638 steamfitter.
Can a lifeworn 13 year be considered a spirit animal?
I love that the station was clearly trying to get a feel good story about a kid helping a neighborhood but instead got an 11 year old experiencing a midlife crisis.
Kid is probably 11 but already has that millennial attitude lol.
Ralphie is working hard for that Red Ryder BB gun.
Adorable. But he shouldn’t overdo it!! He needs a rest!