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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: sleeplessparadise on March 12, 2006, 09:19:35

Title: When I were a lass
Post by: sleeplessparadise on March 12, 2006, 09:19:35: My daughter has just got herself a paper round on a sunday morning. I think this is great as it will give her some self discipline (No way am I getting up sundays too to wake her!) and also gives her a little pocket money (apparently the fiver she gets from gran a week isn't enough and the pound a day we offer her to clean her room is a far away dream :lol: ) Anyway, as posted http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=20171 here it is snowing a little here this morning so she gets ready and goes off to the shop to get her papers to deliver. 20 minutes later she is back and I say, "Wow that was quick. Have you finished already?" Her response, "No. The lady had already taken the papers herself cos she dint think I would be coming in the snow."
Now I ask you what are our children made of these days that a little smattering of snow makes them so unreliable ???? I mean when I were a lass we had 5 or 6 feet of snow where we live (one of highest points in bradford) and we still had to go do our paper rounds!!!
Ok rant over :wink:
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: sleeplessparadise on March 12, 2006, 09:22:21: Ooppss..........forgot to mention.... the lady did give her Ã‚Â£2.50 for just turning up in the snow!!! She gets Ã‚Â£3 for doing the round :o
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: muddyjames on March 12, 2006, 09:49:14: If I went into work and my manager had taken all my post out for me and gave me most of my days wages then I would be laughing all the way home but that will never happen! :lol:

But it does seem a bit daft that the shop keeperdid it but then again it does show the shop keeper ws looking after her health and safety as from doing a postie round on a bike once a week (rest of week in a van) it isnt easy to ride on ice or snow!

When I used to do the free papers on a wednesday I had to do 280 papers and stuff leaflets in side them normally about 5 of them and pick them all up so my dad and I made a trailer for my bike and the most I ever got was about Ã‚Â£8 and it took me from when I got in from school (3ish) to about 6-7pm. I would never do the freebie papers again unless I had my own postie round and did them whilst I went round!!! :D
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: dew1911 on March 12, 2006, 09:59:59: I wouldn't imagine the Postie van would like it much, especially if the roads haven't been gritted.
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: muddyjames on March 12, 2006, 10:03:51: I have done manyer rounds on sheet ice in a postie van down country lanes. You just have to look out for the nearest tree the whole time and crawl along in 1st gear and if a carcomes the other way aim for the bank. I have been lucky so far in the past. I have had trouble getting up a couple of hills before now. one farmer towed me up his drive with a tractor as I got stuck trying to get over a speed bump! one hill I got up I had to come back down and stopping on the hil I managed but walking back up to the van. forget it. I was on hands n knees crawling back up and sliding back down to the van. only way was to walk up the grass above van n slide down into the van n shimmy my way along it. :lol:

We need landies for the winter :D
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: dew1911 on March 12, 2006, 10:06:31: You could deliver the mail in the Disco :D
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: muddyjames on March 12, 2006, 10:09:59: I could do but I dont see why I should add extra wear and tear to my own lovley disco. If it were a RM one then yeah that would get hamered around everywhere like the combos do :)
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: dew1911 on March 12, 2006, 10:16:19: Tell me about it... Several Times I've nearly been hit by a Red Vauxhall Van driven by Fernando Alonso...
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: Xtremeteam on March 12, 2006, 10:21:51: hmmm......

good to see that the Rm posties are as hashy as the council lot,

glad i dont mechanic for them :lol:

although i would as the pay is plenty for not doing much
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: Sooty on March 12, 2006, 10:24:59: May I return to the original post of this thread for a second and say:-
Lets all Big Up sleeplessparadise's daughter =D>
I wish all the youth of today were this consciences but sadly that is not the case.
The question is "if you were the shop keeper and one of the paper girls/boys had to go, would you choose the one that turns up in the snow or the one that stays in bed" :(bloodshot):
I know my answer and maybe your daughter does as well.
Well done that girl.
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: sleeplessparadise on March 12, 2006, 12:09:06: Thank for that Sooty. She is quite good but as I said this was her first day so we will see how long it lasts :lol:
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: ian_s on March 12, 2006, 12:16:26: i used to love doing my paperround
only gave it up when i went to uni
had it for over 5 years. and it paid for many many things on my landy :)
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: muddyjames on March 12, 2006, 13:49:42: what age did you buy your first landy then? it must have taken some doing for a paper round to cover the cost of a landy. Did you deliver to the whole of a city or something? :lol:
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: Baby_Rhino on March 12, 2006, 13:49:43: snap- my paper round was great, did it for so long all the xmas tips i got were brilliant! a nice tax-free way of paying for all my prezzys :D
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: mud-club-matty on March 12, 2006, 14:09:18: i have to work in all weather outside
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: tenpolequint on March 12, 2006, 19:27:21: Quote from: "mud-club-matty"
i have to work in all weather outside

So do I, on the exposed dock front where the wind bites into you.
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: mud-club-matty on March 12, 2006, 19:29:13: lol i get wet though as im a valator parttime but somethimes i get to go nside
Title: When I were a lass
Post by: muddyjames on March 12, 2006, 19:30:56: im out side too but very rarely get wet from rain. will prob get drenched tomorrow now :(