pokemon sage old man dialogue

/vp/ Old man dialogue pastebin

>you better toughen up boy
>it's a hard world out there
>i remember when i got my first job
>i was four years old
>i worked as a scrubbin boy down at the black sludge factory
>i worked 23 hour days neck deep in sludge
>the only time i wasn't holding my breath was when i was throwing up
>they paid you one dollar a year and i worked there for five years
>after quitting i went and bought myself half of a pack of gum, some string, and a broken pencil
>a wooper stole my gum and i lost the pencil in a pyramid scheme

What happened to the string?

>i used the string as a downpayment on a cardboard box
>that cardboard box was my very first business
>i sold lemonade by the thimble
>every morning at dawn i had to walk twelve miles to a gully south of town that had a lemon tree
>the tree was filled with beedrills and i would get stung so bad that i would drop all but one lemon on the return trip
>70 years later that small cardboard box has grown into a small empire of vending machines across this region
>i sell more lemonade in a minute that i did in the first 25 years and i don't have to get stung at all
>the string is still in the bank gaining interest
>by now it's probably worth a rope