Subj : Re: Sigs
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Fri Aug 30 2019 08:42:06

  Daryl wrote to Nancy --

>   Ugh. I had plenty of that with a newspaper route, getting all that ink on 
my hands as I folded the papers into the "rain bags". 

  You had rain bags?  Back in my day Sonny, we had none of that.  we had to
put the paper somewhere on the porch where it wouldn't get wet.
  My second job in life (the first was mowing yards and when fall came so
did my second job) of passing the morning paper.
  When my mother and I moved to Colorado Springs, Co in 1964, I wised up
and got an afternoon route.  No more getting at 4 a.m.
  When I was back there a few months ago I retraced my route and most of
the old placers still there.
  One house I remembered very, very well.
  I was walking along tossing the papers onto porches and at this one house
I misjudged my distance.
  It was a warm afternoon and instead of hitting the porch it sailed
through the open living room window!  I could never do that again in a million
tries.
  I always wonder what they thought, finding the paper inside rather than
on the porch.  (And no, I never mentioned it to them).
  There was an old woman (How old was she?  She was so old she must of been
close to 50) on my route.
  One day I was home, either sick of some day off, watching Art Linkletter. 
She had told me she was going to LA and there she was in the audience.
   She answered some question and won a tv set.  
   When she got back to town I asked about it and she said she told him
later she had a new tv and was able to exchange it for a sewing machine.
   Oh, she rented the second floor to a English teacher I had in school.
   She was fresh out of teachers school and very attractive.  All the boys
loved that class, though none were paying much attention to what she said.
   I was collecting late one day and she was apparently expecting someone
else since she she opened the door she was in some flimsy gown and being back
lit one could see threw it.
   From then on I saw her in a completely different light.  :)
   Joe
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