I had one ‘loose’ aluminum door I always loved to hit with my paper when I was a paper boy. I could always fold our paper to a square and throw it like a Frisbee as I whisked by on my bike… and it was my goal to time my throw and figure out the correct angle and – POW – nail that door. The bang was great.
Back when I was in Junior High, I had an afternoon paper route. Nowadays, they, the newspaper company, have senior citizen type people delivering the paper at 4:00 am.. I guess with changing the paper to a morning paper, they wanted to not let teenagers have a chance at a good part-time job that required them to show personal responsibility. A good trait for entering the adult world
Reminds me of how Arnold the paper boy would always hit Fred Flintstone with the newspaper. Of course that was worse because it printed on stone tablets.
I had an early morning paper route. I walked the 3 streets, folding the papers into a shape I could toss onto front porches. There were a few duplex homes on my route. A couple times, in an effort to throw the paper on the porch of the upper residence, the paper wound up on the roof. There were also people who wanted their paper delivered in between the storm/inner doors (which I hated, since it slowed me down, but I usually at least got some kind of tip from those customers). The Sunday edition was always huge, and had to be assembled from several sections prior to hauling the papers out in my wagon, which I pulled up the streets. Those took a long time to deliver, as each one had to be walked up onto the porch and placed under the door mat, to keep it from blowing away. (God help me if I didn’t, and a wind came along and scattered the paper all over the neighborhood … my home would get phone calls for hours after such an accident).
Templo S.U.D. almost 5 years ago
whoops
LeeCox almost 5 years ago
Especially not the Sunday edition!
sousamannd almost 5 years ago
I had one ‘loose’ aluminum door I always loved to hit with my paper when I was a paper boy. I could always fold our paper to a square and throw it like a Frisbee as I whisked by on my bike… and it was my goal to time my throw and figure out the correct angle and – POW – nail that door. The bang was great.
littlejohn Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Back when I was in Junior High, I had an afternoon paper route. Nowadays, they, the newspaper company, have senior citizen type people delivering the paper at 4:00 am.. I guess with changing the paper to a morning paper, they wanted to not let teenagers have a chance at a good part-time job that required them to show personal responsibility. A good trait for entering the adult world
hariseldon59 almost 5 years ago
Reminds me of how Arnold the paper boy would always hit Fred Flintstone with the newspaper. Of course that was worse because it printed on stone tablets.
Troglodyte almost 5 years ago
Better luck nest time, Woodstock!
mrcooncat almost 5 years ago
I had an early morning paper route. I walked the 3 streets, folding the papers into a shape I could toss onto front porches. There were a few duplex homes on my route. A couple times, in an effort to throw the paper on the porch of the upper residence, the paper wound up on the roof. There were also people who wanted their paper delivered in between the storm/inner doors (which I hated, since it slowed me down, but I usually at least got some kind of tip from those customers). The Sunday edition was always huge, and had to be assembled from several sections prior to hauling the papers out in my wagon, which I pulled up the streets. Those took a long time to deliver, as each one had to be walked up onto the porch and placed under the door mat, to keep it from blowing away. (God help me if I didn’t, and a wind came along and scattered the paper all over the neighborhood … my home would get phone calls for hours after such an accident).
jpayne4040 almost 5 years ago
Woodstock might want to look for a little birdie edition!
dflak almost 5 years ago
What is this newspaper they talk about? Is it anything like the stone tablets they used in ancient Sumeria?
summerdog almost 5 years ago
Home? The poor bird now has no home to deliver to!
gantech almost 5 years ago
INCOMING!!!!!!!
HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Our daily paper wouldn’t hurt a fly if it landed on it.
Wizard of Ahz-no relation almost 5 years ago
the sunday paper might kill him
geese28 almost 5 years ago
The newspaper is HIS home
Ellis97 almost 5 years ago
Maybe they should throw it at his tree instead.
DCBakerEsq almost 5 years ago
WSJ
KenDHoward1 almost 5 years ago
And, when newsprint has become something you research in libraries, Woodstock will have to get online … ;)
knight1192a almost 5 years ago
Ah, so they moved this strip to today so they could run last Sunday’s for Easter. They flipped the order the two ran back in ’73.
bigal666 almost 5 years ago
It’s a new rug for the cage.
hagarthehorrible almost 5 years ago
The paper reporters are famous for ruining houses.