BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
I can identify with that (from some 70+ years ago), I was always careful not to "upset" the good tippers 😊
Paperboy ramming his bike into my gates.
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I can identify with that (from some 70+ years ago), I was always careful not to "upset" the good tippers 😊
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Tippers?
I never got a tip.
Maybe it was because of all the gate ramming and hedge hopping I did.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
Did anyone have the game "paperboy" down their local arcade in the 1980? you rode along on a BMX lobbing newspapers into very american looking "mailboxes" and if you weren't accurate enough smashing their windows and losing points*?
*I've sort of lost the point of this thread but hey hum.
*I've sort of lost the point of this thread but hey hum.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Brilliant game. You scored points for smashing the windows of non-customers.
Jameshow
Veteran
I didn't but I regularly did a paper round in a mercedes sl500 when another paperboy skived and the newsagents said hop in it will be quicker if I wiz you round!!
wiggydiggy
Legendary Member
Your papershop was posher than mine, Peugeot 305 (Saloon) was their car.
Jameshow
Veteran
It was in Penn Buckinghamshire - manor road was the posh road!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Our paper shop owner had a brown Volvo estate. Very 70s!
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I remember one summer I used to do two morning rounds, then cycle off for a day's work picking strawberries, before riding back for an evening round. I became phenomenally wealthy.
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
Oh dear, my paperboy experiences were in the early 1960s. Paper Shop owned drove a Ford Zephyr Zodiac(?). There were lots of paperboys (about 10 - 12 if I recall correctly), we were not allowed to ride IN the actual car, we travelled in the trailer, sitting on the bags full of papers to be delivered. 😂
I did. a morning round 6 mornings, and, an evening round, 6 days, plus Sunday Morning, also, had to collect the "paper money" on a Friday Evening, Saturday Morning. For 5 days of the week, school was in between morning round and evening round. For this, I was paid 25 shillings (£1.25). I was expected to give my mother 20shillings (£1), she 'saved" 10 shillings (50p) for me, and, kept the other 50p toward household costs, I got to have the 25p as pocket money. This was enough to maintain a budding drink habit, and, the odd woodbine 😊
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
I did 7 mornings, and 6 evening a week. Sunday was my hiking day after the paper round. Bus to Peak District.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Wheelie bins always have an old mattress in. Soft landing.
Stephenite
Membå
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- OslO
I also did 7 mornings and 6 evenings a week. And got paid a pittance.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
On one occasion, in winter, I woke up, checked the clock, it was 10 past (or something past), and headed off to the shop for my round. I was surprised to find it deserted, so I went home. I hadn't checked the hour before going out and had gone to the shop at 2am.
Jameshow
Veteran
I was clearing out by bedroom as a lad, found an unopened wage envelope! Christmas cone early! How it happened I don't know! Happy days!!
