A physical activity I no longer do

[Irulan]

so I don't know if teens regularily shovel snow these days. Or maybe they take pauses to check their ipod..

Nope, at least not that I know of. I grew up in Chicago where it was a regular occurrence to have a teen show up at the front door with a shovel and "shovel your walk for a few bucks?".

You'd think with the dumps we get around here that it would be easy money for an enterprising teen. In twenty years here in the PNW I've not seen it once, even in our biggest snows.