I noticed that kids don't deliver papers anymore. Over the past few years it has been adults in a car tossing them on lawns and driveways. Have kids gotten that lazy? How the hell do they make a little money for themselves? I remember riding my bike in all kinds of extreme weather conditions to get those papers delivered. It was kind of like slave labor though. You mainly worked off tips and on a GOOD week, you walked away with like $30 for seven days worth of humping papers around. Sunday Mornings sucked ass. Those papers were HEAVY and you had to put them all together before you delivered them. Your hands would be full of print, you'd be tired, but your ass was out and about at like 6:30AM. I hope these adult delivery people have other sources of income. I doubt it though because every adult delivery person I've seen drives around in this big ass hoopty with no power steering. Poor Bastards.
I don't understand the home delivery of the newspaper anymore, except maybe the Sunday paper. During the week, who's sitting at home reading a paper? By the time you get the paper, that shit is old news already. Just turn on CNN for 10 minutes and be done with it and all caught up on the news. Most of the time, they don't even have scores of games that end past 10pm. Who the fuck needs it then? I can see someone on a subway or train commuting reading a paper, it kills time, but home delivery? Screw that.
Off to a day full of meetings, this sucks................
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HOOPTY! Like a big lime green 1977 Lincoln with no muffler and just AM radio? That's funny!
Kids are lazy, they don't do much of anything anymore. That's why we have an obesity problem in America. They are quick to blame cookie monster for it, yet kids aren't encouraged to get up off their butts!
I hate the paper delivery car, it always drives around on the wrong side of the street. and though I am rarely up and on the road at that time, seeing it always pisses me off.
I don't like reading the paper either, as I only like the sports page and it is much quicker to watch Sportscenter for breaking scores/news!
Paper delivery boys always remind me of the movie "Better Off Dead".
I just signed up for the twice-a-week community paper. The dailies I read online. Time will tell whether my neighbors will leave my paper for me or whether the cheapskate b@stards will steal it! :)
our paper delivery *boy* is, like, eighty years old...he can barely get the paper on the porch. our mailman smokes cigars while he delivers the mail. he also talks on his cell phones. and never shuts the mailbox. bastard.
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