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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Luxury...."We used to live in paper bag int middle of road..."
Before you shriek in outrage, I did my time, delivering mountains of junk mail for two years. One night I weighed my bag of pamphlets and it weighed nearly 100 pounds, or 40 kilos in the new money. My mum thought I was going to crush my spine carting this shit around the neighbourhood twice a week, but I survived it. And ate a handful of hot gravel for tea if I was lucky.
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Shazzoir Old enough to know better young enough not to care, Fri 17 Feb 2006, 13:34,
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