You lucky - lucky man - we never had muskrats when we were kids - I had to do a full week delivering newspapers - around 14 hours plus - to earn the measly sum of £1 (that's about $1.30 these days) -
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Hello big, I have seen first hand what grasshoppers can do and how fast they can do it. I had to give up a prime growing spot one time. I could not control the grasshoppers. They won, the plants and I lost.
Soon Gypsy you will be from a bygone era, we either keep up or get out of the way.Punctuality - an endangered concept - and if you try and instill it within a young person/son daughter - they behave as if you were from the Waffen SS - Islamic battalion - with insinuations of dictatorial behaviour - cheeky kids -
I learned about punctuality - by doing an early morning paper round - from 10 years old - I had to be at the newsagents on the Ewell Road - bang on 5.30am - 7 mornings every week - so had to be at least conscious by 5.00am - brush teeth - throw clothing on - and get on me bicycle - rain 🌧 - wind - snow- or sunshine
- usually leaving home when it was pitch dark - before dawn - most all of the year - and cycling to the newsagents shop - to collect a very heavy bag of newspapers and magazines - to deliver by 7.30am - giving me enough time to get home - eat some breakfast - clean up and change into school uniform - then cycle to school for 8.30am start
Kids can't get jobs as newspaper delivery operatives no more - so they tell me - the paper - newspaper is apparently a very endangered thing - so not many people want one every morning to read at breakfast - it's all online - at the touch of a smart phone screen -
I have to agree about punctuality, it's important. I had an employer one time who found it not to be a problem for him to keep you waiting as if your time had no importance. He was a nice fellow but as an employer not so much when it came to another persons time.
In a metaphorical sense the world is getting smaller. The people in power who pull the strings could live anywhere. Wealth and power does not need a country when they have the world.
That's just my opinion for what it's worth.
I'm already from a bygone era oldman - I'm just having problems trying to adapt to whatever this new era is - lots of things I don't particularly like - but then you still gotta roll with it - or just ignore it completely - I 'spose -
I just got off the phone with Boo. Crazy barstid is working maintaining barbed wire fence lines, etc. Dutch is getting by, with Boo watching all the time.
And I ain't gonna rat on him about what he plans to do with some giant oak trees. He's gotta tell you hisself. It's as hard to swallow as a Vaseline sandwich, but he's gonna fargin do it...
The boy shames me. I have to admit I inherited the "sloth and indolence" gene. And I have developed it nicely.
And I ain't gonna rat on him about what he plans to do with some giant oak trees. He's gotta tell you hisself. It's as hard to swallow as a Vaseline sandwich, but he's gonna fargin do it...
The boy shames me. I have to admit I inherited the "sloth and indolence" gene. And I have developed it nicely.
I have a number of uses for newspapers, not one of them has anything to do with reading.Well theres still the funny section and the puzzles.
Hello Sub, all the best
That is exactly the reason I still get the Palm Beach Putz <-- I do the two cryptograms, Witchie-poo does the two crossword puzzles -- I print just those items. And I read the funnies.Well theres still the funny section and the puzzles.
LATE PS REASON:
Like Don Corleone said, "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
Unfortunately I never read the comics and was never into puzzles. They don't even have a fishing report anymore....FFS! Internet killed the classified section. Hard to believe but I used to spend over $20,000 a month advertising in the Automobile section. Everything switched to the internet practically overnight.Well theres still the funny section and the puzzles.
The Denver Post hardly has any local news anymore.....all comes from the Associated Press. Sports....internet it up to the minute news.....paper everything is yesterday's news......
Boom.....
The actual news is what they want us to hear.....not what is really going on.....what a shame.
OleReynard
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I've sold muskrat upto $10 at one time.
Held a thousand of them and loss 4 grand sold them for 6
Same here, had the daily Mercury I delivered before school and on Saturday the weekend edition. Pocket money was about it. I delivered the weekend edition to this mansion on the edge of town, it had a very long driveway and there was always the possibility I would encounter yellowjackets. The owner could give a crap if I was attacked, all for a shiny dime.
In later years I worked as a bellhop in his hotel.
Yes it was emergency surgery. They did not have to resection my intestines
Ladies - from a bygone era -
Therein lies the problem.....news today isn't about factual reporting it is his opinion......there is a section for that it's called Editorial both in print and broadcast media.
This guy is about to tell you what he, his boss and the politicians want you to hear. If you listen closely and look around close you can tell he is shoveling BS. The Border is a good example.....I am told it is closed but when I look at Down Town Denver my common since tells me something is not quite right.
This guy is about to tell you what he, his boss and the politicians want you to hear. If you listen closely and look around close you can tell he is shoveling BS. The Border is a good example.....I am told it is closed but when I look at Down Town Denver my common since tells me something is not quite right.
At 16 ,and could not stand working for my Father started working in a spot-welding shop.
Made $1.75 a hour working like beavers to make $
We burned our hands so so much we got used to it.
If we had a 3 day weekend we would work 16 hours a day for 3 days to make $ and buy real shitty weed at first
Place went on fire
I remember working for that and less. In HS I worked at the local Grocery Store as a stock boy. Pay was next to nothing. Then I worked as a life guard during the summer.....$1.50/hr. Then at gas stations......60 hr weeks for $100 a month.
My first real job was at Schofield Bros Pontiac in Wichita for $3.50 flat rate....thought I had died and went to heaven.
I remember the weed being pretty good if you could get around the stems and seeds. That was over 50 years ago.
Today I work my azz off for nothing.....Wondering what happened.
Oh, almost forgot the United States Army. When first drafted I made $35 a month. What a country.
