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Table 5 · 09-13-2020, 06:04 PM

I never delivered the paper, but I did deliver flyers. On one hand, it didn't pay as well as delivering the paper, but on the other, most people were ambivalent at best about receiving them, so you could skip the odd house or five if you were feeling lazy or the weather sucked and nobody would care.

The best part of the job were the times when you had to deliver product samples along with the flyers. They were mostly things like mini shampoos and detergent packs and crap, but every once in a while you got to deliver something like mini cereal or candy. Imagine as a 11-12 year old getting a big box of fruit rollups and being told to deliver it to the entire neighbourhood. Those were the times when you squirrelled away half the stash for yourself, and for the next few weeks afterwards acted as a benevolent ruler at school.

09-13-2020, 06:04 PM	#30
Table 5 Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: NYYC Exp:	I never delivered the paper, but I did deliver flyers. On one hand, it didn't pay as well as delivering the paper, but on the other, most people were ambivalent at best about receiving them, so you could skip the odd house or five if you were feeling lazy or the weather sucked and nobody would care. The best part of the job were the times when you had to deliver product samples along with the flyers. They were mostly things like mini shampoos and detergent packs and crap, but every once in a while you got to deliver something like mini cereal or candy. Imagine as a 11-12 year old getting a big box of fruit rollups and being told to deliver it to the entire neighbourhood. Those were the times when you squirrelled away half the stash for yourself, and for the next few weeks afterwards acted as a benevolent ruler at school.