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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Waste of timeDelivering the local Free paper. Well, one of them - we had one for every day of the week. My mate did Wednesday's - took him about half an hour and he got paid 4 quid. Not bad, I thought, so I went and got a round on the Thursday paper.. well I wasn't a big strong 14 year old. That bag of papers was heavier than I was, I couldn't actually lift it so I had to go home and find a trolley. Which buckled under the weight after 3 weeks. My round was a half hour walk from where I collected the papers. Then it took me an hour and a half to deliver them. That's 2 1/2 hours for ... one pound eighty. I did it for a month then started dumping the papers in hedges. They soon caught me but I was glad.
(, Tue 21 Feb 2006, 13:21, Reply)
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