For teenagers, summer jobs are what they have to go through in life. Persuaded by their parents, they get down to the earth and learn this precious lesson of being responsible, the right attitude toward money and the importance of hard work.

Whether you want to buy a bicycle, your first car or the dress you’d wear to your graduation prom, you are full of passion when you take your first part-time job. But, life is not always what people want.

American talk show host Jimmy Fallon recently asked people to share their worst summer job on social media. Here are some hilarious answers.

1. I worked at a historic site once, where I had to dress as a bison and be chased by hordes of 5-year-olds in a bison hunt. Once after being killed in the hunt I was breathing too heavily from running. One of them yelled “It’s alive” and punched me in the face.

2. I was 10 and went to my grandfather’s farm. He gave me US$10 to be a scarecrow. I stood there in the sun yelling for an hour until my mom came and yelled at him.

3. I was hired at an elderly people’s home for patients with dementia. On my first day I accidently pressed the door button and the old people escaped. We had to run through town rounding them up.

4. As a public school teacher in North Carolina, I don’t make much money. So I had to deliver pizzas one summer. My second delivery was to one of my former students. Her first words were “what, you get fired?”

5. I was working at a nursing home at 17. A woman of 79 accused me of stealing and wearing her adult diaper to steal her 87-year-old boyfriend because it padded my butt and made me appear to have a butt like hers.

6. I had a job walking five Chihuahuas. When they got tired, I had to carry them home — two in my arm, two on my shoulders and one on my head.

7. I had to play Kid (uncredited) every summer for 3 years.

8. I was babysitting two kids. One ran out the front door, and the other went out the back. When I ran around the house to find them, they ran back inside, locked me out, and turned the sprinklers on.

9. I earned US$30 working construction for a temp agency one day in college. When I finished, there was a US$35 parking ticket on my car. I refer to it as the day I paid to work.

Words to Learn 相关词汇

【稻草人】dàocǎorén scarecrow an object made to resemble a human figure, set up to scare birds away from a field where crops are growing

【洒水器】sǎshuǐqì sprinkler a device used for watering lawns

对很多青少年来说，暑假兼职是人生的必经之路，他们在父母的劝勉之下，放下浮躁的心态，通过这堂宝贵的社会课堂学习责任感、正确的金钱观，懂得刻苦努力的重要性。

不论你赚钱的目的是为了买自行车，购置人生第一辆私人汽车还是买一件毕业舞会上穿的礼服，开始投身到兼职中去时我们总是满怀热情。可是，现实往往不尽如人愿。

美国脱口秀主持人Jimmy Fallon最近请人们在社交网络上分享他们最糟糕的暑假兼职经历。这里有些非常好笑的回复。

1. 我在一个历史景点工作，要装扮成野牛的样子，在一个名为“捕猎野牛”的活动中被一群5岁的熊孩子狂追。有一次我被他们猎到后，他们把我“杀”了，可是，由于我刚被狂追了一阵，还在粗声地喘气，一个熊孩子大喊“它还活着”，然后在我脸上狠狠揍了一拳。

2. 我10岁的时候，去外公的农场玩，他给了我10美元，让我去扮稻田里的稻草人。于是我顶着大太阳在田里站了一个小时，还要大声吼叫。直到我妈来了我才解脱，她吼了我外公一顿。

3. 我受雇在一个老年之家做兼职。那里的老人都有老年痴呆症。入职第一天我不小心按了一个按钮，把大门打开了，于是那些老人都逃了出去。我们不得不跑遍全镇才把他们都追回来。

4. 作为一个在卡罗来纳州北部公立学校教书的老师，我收入微薄，一年暑假我不得不送披萨外卖赚钱。我的第二单生意送到了一个过去的学生家里。她看到我的第一句话是，“什么，你被炒鱿鱼了吗？”

5. 17岁时我曾经在一个养老院做兼职，一个79岁的老奶奶控诉我偷窃还擅自穿了她的成人纸尿裤。她说我穿她的纸尿裤的目的是垫衬自己的屁股，让我的屁股看起来像她的，好抢走她87岁的男朋友。

6. 要遛5只吉娃娃，它们走累了我还要把它们抱回家。两只抱在手里，两只搭在肩膀上，还有一只骑在我的头上。

7. 我连续3年夏天都去当群众演员，每年演的都是“某小孩”。

8. 给两个小孩当保姆。一个朝前门跑，一个往后门跑。为找到他们我跑遍了整个屋子，他们又掉头跑回来，把我关在外面，还把花园里的洒水器打开了。

9. 有一次在一个大学校园的工地上为临时工中介干活，赚了30美元。完工后，我发现自己要支付35美元的违规停车罚单。我把这一天称作花钱工作的日子。 (chinadaily.com.cn)