When I was 9 thereabouts, the sewer and sidewalks came to Wallasey Street in Winnipeg one hot summer. It was quite the summer spectacle, the year before I started my paper route, guys all over the street in front of our house.
Enterprising and alone at home while my parents worked, I decided to try selling these guys Kool-Aid, but gave them water for free if that’s what they preferred. It was pretty busy for a while till they moved down the street. One of those formative opportunities.