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When I were a lass

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sleeplessparadise:
My daughter has just got herself a paper round on a sunday morning. I think this is great as it will give her some self discipline (No way am I getting up sundays too to wake her!) and also gives her a little pocket money (apparently the fiver she gets from gran a week isn't enough and the pound a day we offer her to clean her room is a far away dream  :lol: ) Anyway, as posted http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=20171 here it is snowing a little here this morning so she gets ready and goes off to the shop to get her papers to deliver. 20 minutes later she is back and I say, "Wow that was quick. Have you finished already?" Her response, "No. The lady had already taken the papers herself cos she dint think I would be coming in the snow."
Now I ask you what are our children made of these days that a little smattering of snow makes them so unreliable ???? I mean when I were a lass we had 5 or 6 feet of snow where we live (one of highest points in bradford) and we still had to go do our paper rounds!!!
Ok rant over  :wink:

sleeplessparadise:
Ooppss..........forgot to mention.... the lady did give her £2.50 for just turning up in the snow!!! She gets £3 for doing the round  :o

muddyjames:
If I went into work and my manager had taken all my post out for me and gave me most of my days wages then I would be laughing all the way home but that will never happen! :lol:

But it does seem a bit daft that the shop keeperdid it but then again it does show the shop keeper ws looking after her health and safety as from doing a postie round on a bike once a week (rest of week in a van) it isnt easy to ride on ice or snow!

When I used to do the free papers on a wednesday I had to do 280 papers and stuff leaflets in side them normally about 5 of them and pick them all up so my dad and I made a trailer for my bike and the most I ever got was about £8 and it took me from when I got in from school (3ish) to about 6-7pm.  I would never do the freebie papers again unless I had my own postie round and did them whilst I went round!!!  :D

dew1911:
I wouldn't imagine the Postie van would like it much, especially if the roads haven't been gritted.

muddyjames:
I have done manyer rounds on sheet ice in a postie van down country lanes. You just have to look out for the nearest tree the whole time and crawl along in 1st gear and if a carcomes the other way aim for the bank. I have been lucky so far in the past. I have had trouble getting up a couple of hills before now. one farmer towed me up his drive with a tractor as I got stuck trying to get over a speed bump! one hill I got up I had to come back down and stopping on the hil I managed but walking back up to the van. forget it. I was on hands n knees crawling back up and sliding back down to the van. only way was to walk up the grass above van n slide down into the van n shimmy my way along it.  :lol:

We need landies for the winter  :D

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