Subj : Sigs
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Sep 01 2019 12:00:12

 On 2019 Aug 30 08:42:06, you wrote to DARYL STOUT:

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

 JM> You had rain bags?  Back in my day Sonny, we had none of that.  we had
 JM> to put the paper somewhere on the porch where it wouldn't get wet.

my last route was an in-town route 12 miles long with 500 subscribers... i got 
very good at throwing the papers out the right hand window from the left hand 
driver's side... could throw multiple papers at once with my right hand when 
needed to land in each of those properties... four was the max, though, since 
there's only four gaps between each of your fingers and thumb...

i had one subscriber that always left their front door open... i was able to 
consistently put the paper through the door from my moving (30+ mph) vehicle 
and land it on the couch... one day i was in a bit of a rush from running late 
and was going a little faster and threw that paper a little harder... as always 
the paper went right through the door as intended... it also flew a little 
further to the other end of the couch and hit the subscriber's elderly mother 
right in the side of her head...

luckily it was with the outside edge of the rolled paper instead of the folded 
part... it didn't hurt her but they/she found another place to sit to watch 
TV... of course i stopped and went back to check on her... we were all 
apologizing to each other... i gave them a month's subscription for free but 
they still insisted on giving me some $$$ for the service...

that was like 30 years ago... haven't thrown papers since...

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Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set 
them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
.... It's easier to have solutions if you don't know much about the problem.
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