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That’s when I made my move. I walked to the hardware store (1.2 miles, 18 minutes) and spent my own allowance—89 cents—on a package of rubber bands.

I was nine. My father, George Sr., had spent his Saturday morning fixing our neighbor’s broken cyclone fence. Not out of kindness—but because she was a widow and my mother, Mary, had volunteered him. For payment, the neighbor gave us her dead husband’s old lawnmower. young sheldon s01e04 m4a

Back home, I explained to Georgie: A fouled spark plug can be temporarily cleaned by snapping a rubber band into the gap to scrape off carbon deposits. It’s not a permanent fix, but it buys you three more lawns. That’s when I made my move