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Tim Senior Member
since 1999-06-08
Posts 1794 |
I remember the summer of my eleventh year, I had yet to see the seventh grade and we still lived on second street down on the end near the rail mill where the fathers of the kids in the neighborhood worked in the mill getting paid on the first and the fifteenth. I got up each morning at five that summer and folded my papers, not rolled with a rubber band but folded in a square where you could side arm ‘em from the sidewalk onto the porch and if you missed you had to go back because back then folks expected their paper on the porch and to get paid you had to collect which meant knocking on doors and sometimes people not answering their doors even though you knew they were there and if you did not collect on the first or the fifteenth you didn’t get paid but were told, come back on payday. Sometimes when you delivered the papers you would accidently sidearm the paper just right and it would land against an aluminum screen door and at six-thirty in the morning it would sound like the dickens. paperboys were not supposed to hit screen doors but sometimes it happened and strangely enough it happened most often to the houses you didn’t collect from on the first or fifteenth or no one answered the door even if you knew someone was there or the houses where they said come back on payday. Least ways that is how I remember the summer of my eleventh year. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
ooooooooooooh...and tsk and cluck, too. You, sir, have been hiding stories from me!   and this: "but sometimes it happened and strangely enough it happened most often to the houses you didn’t collect" *innocent eyes* It happened that way to me too.  |
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Mysteria 
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
And me A lady chased me down the street once in her nightgown for hitting her screen. I laughed then, and am laughing now. A moment in time I enjoyed Tim, both yours and now mine. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Least ways that is how I remember ... ~*~ It must be payday... or is that paydirt?  |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
 brought back many memories, of helping my brother get all those papers ready, only, he used rubber bands, and you should have seen the rubber band battles we had....hehe anyway, getting back to your poem...marvelously smiling...thank you |
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