Lemonade Stands

The sun was hot, beaming on all of our necks as we sat in my driveway, bored and unsure of what to do.

“What can we do, I’m so bored,” my sister would say.

“Hmm, we could… ride bikes, play a game, make some lemona-”

“Lemonade!” She’d respond. “Let’s have a lemonade stand!”

            It was our favorite thing to do during past time. Whenever it was a nice day and we were bored out of our minds, having a lemonade stand was the perfect way to keep us occupied. I would run inside, ask my mother if we had any lemonade mix and if there wasn’t any (which there usually wasn’t) we would make it from scratch. This was the only thing I knew how to make by memory as a child.

            The process was incredibly easy. First, we would take the water pitcher and fill it with about 4 tablespoons of lemon juice. Then, we would pour sugar into the pitcher until it was even with how much lemon juice there was. Then, we filled the pitcher with as much water as it would take. Then it was time for the lemonade to be stirred. This was always my favorite part because my mom had a special pitched which had a handle on top connecting to a stirring rod inside of the pitcher with a piece of plastic on the bottom to shake up the liquid. We would push the handle up and down until all of the sugar seemed to disappear. We would then taste the juice and add more of our original ingredients according to how much we felt would make it taste just right. Then our lemonade was ready! It was as simple as that!

            Our lemonade stand could not be complete without a decorated table to lure in our customers and a nice cash register to collect all the money we would make. For hours, we sat there, screaming at cars that would drive by, hoping to get their attention. “LEMONADE!” We would scream this until our throats felt soar and our hands felt tired from holding the signs that seemed almost useless. Since our street is not a main road and is barely half a mile long, the most customers we would ever get were about five a day if we were lucky. However, among five customers, we would make as much as thirty dollars in tips a day. It was the perfect little business.

-J.L.