Who had a real paper route when they were a kid?

[classicgeek]

I had a paper route. The local daily paper, the Victoria Times-Colonist. Held that down for just over a year when I was 14. Had to get up at five every morning to get them delivered before seven. Was a good experience and part of the job was collecting the money every two weeks. That was the part that Dad drove me around for. He thought nothing of sending his firstborn out alone in the predawn rain, but didn't want to see me rolled for the paper money.
Gave it up when I was old enough to pump gas. That was a completely different kind of learning experience. The paper route was healthier.
Followed by three years in a bakery. I'm still trying to lose the weight...
Simon

 

[searock]

I have a route when I was 12 or 13. They would deliver our paper bundles to a car wash where all us paper boys met. The bundles were tied with wire and we would cut it off so we could roll the pagers. With all that wire around we "had" to find some bad use for it, after all we were kids. So, we would sneak across the street to the gas station, go in the men's room, ram a wire up the condon machine, wiggle it and out would come a bunch of rubbers. Then we filled them with water and had "balloon fights". Ah, those were the days!

 

[dudleydipstick]

Searock wrote:

we would sneak across the street to the gas station, go in the men's room, ram a wire up the condon machine, wiggle it and out would come a bunch of rubbers. Then we filled them with water and had "balloon fights". Ah, those were the days!

When I was in elementary school, me and a buddy of mine would ride our bikes up to Swifty and get a couple rubbers, unroll them, spit hockers in them, and throw them on cars or stick them on antennas.
Me and that same friend would call people at random sometimes and tell them that our parents left us at Theatre X (a local porno mecca) and that we were scared and needed someone to come and pick us up. They always agreed.
I miss those days without *69 and caller ID.

 

[spacecowboy57]

lol dudly, i did similar things even when i was in college, although they give them out at the health center. My gf has a dick of a materials science teacher, so when she was taking his final, i filled a rubber with elmers glue and water, and slipped it over his office doorhandle. i could only imagine the b@st@rd walking back with an armload of papers and reaching for the door handle...