Child LabourThere is a special part of Hell I'd like to reserve for those arses that order every single Sunday paper. Do you know how heavy that makes the bundle of papers some poor kid (ie me) has to lug around? Funny how your papers always seemed to get mangled in your letterbox...
I loved my paper round, but, looking back, I was getting paid peanuts to ruin my back and cycle around in the cold and dark. How were you exploited as a child?
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chthonic, Fri 17 Feb 2006, 12:05)
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I was Maureen Lipman's Paperboy!I was the youngest paperboy in my local shop by about ten years. All the bigger boys picked on me because I was the youngest.
I was thirty.
Ok so it wasn't strictly child labour but while I was underemployed a few years back I used to have a huge paper round in Muswell Hill; Maureen Lipman and other media types were on my round. Many of them ordered multiple papers, especially at weekends, the bastards.
Although by no means the worst, Maureen Lipman used to get the Telegraph, the Ham & High and the Jewish Chronicle. She didn't tip. The scary old people in the methodist nursing home, who all got tabloid papers and smelled of wee and formaldehyde, tipped really well though.
(, Wed 22 Feb 2006, 20:05, Reply)
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