Subj : Re: Sigs To : JOE MACKEY From : Daryl Stout Date : Sat Aug 31 2019 11:52:00 Joe, JM> You had rain bags? Back in my day Sonny, we had none of that. we had to JM>put the paper somewhere on the porch where it wouldn't get wet. I got where I could pitch it onto the porch from the bicycle, or I'd stop the bike, and toss it, or manually put it up there. Now, if there was a dog in the yard, all bets were off. JM> When my mother and I moved to Colorado Springs, Co in 1964, I wised up JM>and got an afternoon route. No more getting at 4 a.m. The Miami News was an afternoon paper. I usually did the route after I got home from school. JM> I was walking along tossing the papers onto porches and at this one house JM>I misjudged my distance. JM> It was a warm afternoon and instead of hitting the porch it sailed JM>through the open living room window! I could never do that again in a milli JM>tries. And, it was unrehearsed!! JM> I always wonder what they thought, finding the paper inside rather than JM>on the porch. (And no, I never mentioned it to them). I gather they never brought it up, either. JM> When she got back to town I asked about it and she said she told him JM>later she had a new tv and was able to exchange it for a sewing machine. Enterprising woman. JM> Oh, she rented the second floor to a English teacher I had in school. JM> She was fresh out of teachers school and very attractive. All the boys JM>loved that class, though none were paying much attention to what she said. They were studying other things. JM> I was collecting late one day and she was apparently expecting someone JM>else since she she opened the door she was in some flimsy gown and being bac JM>lit one could see threw it. JM> From then on I saw her in a completely different light. :) I would say so. Reminds me of the scene in "Silver Streak" where Richard Pryor saw Gene Wilder's girlfriend, Jill Clayburgh, and said "Have Mercy!!". Sadly, all of them are dead and gone now. Daryl === þ OLX 1.53 þ Cannibals eat missionaries to get a taste of religion. --- SBBSecho 3.08-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (1:19/33) .