Odd jobs of old

Red_Alert said:
Yep.

Like I said I ended my subscription in the 90's sometime. I got it mainly to do the Crossword and Jumble puzzles.

True story.... One morning I went out to the end of the driveway to grab the paper, brought it in the house and slid the paper out of the plastic sleeve. A weed pipe was in it.
I think the carrier guy in his car had it hidden in a paper, accidentally grabbed the wrong one, and tossed it out the window.

I just laughed and tossed the pipe in the trash. He/She were probably freaking out for a couple days thinking they'd get reported.

I don't know who the carrier was because they didn't collect door to door like we had to back in the day. The monthly bill was paid through the mail. There was a place on it for a tip, but I never tipped.
I'm not tipping someone where I have to go to the end of my driveway to get my newspaper. How hard is it to drive by and toss it out your car window?
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The last time I got a paper delivered was when a giant wolf spider crawled out of it just as I was removing the rubber band.

Yeah, I screamed like a little girl.
 
Hu War Yu said:
The last time I got a paper delivered was when a giant wolf spider crawled out of it just as I was removing the rubber band.

Yeah, I screamed like a little girl.
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My street didn't have storm sewers on it back then. It was just a drainage ditch on both sides of my driveway. Can't tell you how many times the carrier would miss the driveway and I'd have to crawl down into the drainage ditch to get it.
Fuck them. I ain't giving a $$ tip for that shiz.
 
Hu War Yu said:
The last time I got a paper delivered was when a giant wolf spider crawled out of it just as I was removing the rubber band.

Yeah, I screamed like a little girl.
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Those are the scariest looking spiders and I kill em with brake cleaner from a safe distance, but really they’re harmless to humans and generally beneficial.

But as far as newspapers go, I don’t think my grandparents ever had them delivered and my great grandparents were probably too poor if they were even available in the area in their time to get them
 
dikowt dowg said:
farrier as well. @ill and @KTg8trgrl whattaya guys think
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ill said:
odd people to call out...

did I have a discussion about this with her in the past?
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dikowt dowg said:
I thought you too went at it over this once. I could be wrong.
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ill said:
a quick search on both sites has no posts from me referring to a farrier...
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It was KT and Maze&Blew

 
Red_Alert said:
My street didn't have storm sewers on it back then. It was just a drainage ditch on both sides of my driveway. Can't tell you how many times the carrier would miss the driveway and I'd have to crawl down into the drainage ditch to get it.
Fuck them. I ain't giving a tip for that shiz.
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Where I grew up you had to have a paper box mounted just below your mail box, and they were always delivered via car. Maybe some fat cats that lived in town got theirs bike delivered, but we were out in the sticks and almost nobody lived close to the road. Everyone's driveway was a quarter mile long.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
Those are the scariest looking spiders and I kill em with brake cleaner from a safe distance, but really they’re harmless to humans and generally beneficial.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I killed that one, since it was already in the house. I only felt a little bit bad about it, since it scared the bejeebus outta me. Crawled all over my hands and wrists before I knew what was happening.

I'm not @moxie level, but I don't care for spiders in general.
 
Hu War Yu said:
Where I grew up you had to have a paper box mounted just below your mail box, and they were always delivered via car. Maybe some fat cats that lived in town got theirs bike delivered, but we were out in the sticks and almost nobody lived close to the road. Everyone's driveway was a quarter mile long.
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my dad had to do the Tony Soprano thing to get his paper.

the sopranos morning GIF
 
Hu War Yu said:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I killed that one, since it was already in the house. I only felt a little bit bad about it, since it scared the bejeebus outta me. Crawled all over my hands and wrists before I knew what was happening.

I'm not @moxie level, but I don't care for spiders in general.
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I hate spiders. And centipedes. Pretty much any bug with more than 6 legs, and really any bug that doesn’t fly.

But wolf spiders in the house aren’t good. They carry their babies on their back. Step on one and a million baby spiders go everywhere
 
Hu War Yu said:
Where I grew up you had to have a paper box mounted just below your mail box, and they were always delivered via car. Maybe some fat cats that lived in town got theirs bike delivered, but we were out in the sticks and almost nobody lived close to the road. Everyone's driveway was a quarter mile long.
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You can still buy mailboxes (Home Depot, Lowes) that have a newspaper slot below the mailbox itself.

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The house on my old acreage was pretty close to the road so the driveway was maybe 100'. The acreage was all behind it.

The driveway on my new acreage is over 300 yds long. I use my ATV 4 wheeler to check the mail. LOL
 
Red_Alert said:
The driveway on my new acreage is over 300 yds long. I use my ATV 4 wheeler to check the mail. LOL
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When my dad asked me to go get the mail, I hopped on my bike. It was a long slow incline heading down to the highway, but that trip back was a good workout.

And it was gravel. Good thing I had a BMX.
 
dikowt dowg said:
The icebox was a thing.


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Delivery workers would transport huge blocks of ice around the country on carts and in motor vehicles. The ladies in this photograph delivered ice from their distributor to houses across Manhattan. Folks would use these ice blocks to cool down meals. As refrigerators and freezers grew more common, the company gradually went out of business.
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oh wood
 
Red_Alert said:
You can still buy mailboxes (Home Depot, Lowes) that have a newspaper slot below the mailbox itself.

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The house on my old acreage was pretty close to the road so the driveway was maybe 100'. The acreage was all behind it.

The driveway on my new acreage is over 300 yds long. I use my ATV 4 wheeler to check the mail. LOL
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I trained my yellow lab to go get the paper. He loved doing it until I canceled the subscription.
 
Hu War Yu said:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I killed that one, since it was already in the house. I only felt a little bit bad about it, since it scared the bejeebus outta me. Crawled all over my hands and wrists before I knew what was happening.

I'm not @moxie level, but I don't care for spiders in general.
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fuck that ice cube GIF


Justifiable homicide.
 
Watch out for hats in this thread guys :wink:

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