On Fri, 01 Sep 2017 08:15:36 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:57:25 -0400, Gary wrote:
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>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Most of my storage containers are flatish rectangular pint size...
>> >> very easy to fit a hundred into a normal dishwasher, with lids, when
>> >> one knows how... in staggered layers...
>> >
>> > Horse hockey! If you were telling the truth, you would have added
>> > a few pics. Let's see the pics, Sheldon. This was one of most
>> > ridiculous claims ever made on RFC.
>>
>> You know he's always exaggerating. My personal favorite was that he
>> made $60,000/year (inflation adjusted) delivering newspapers when he
>> was a pre-teen.
>>
>> -sw
>
>I totally laughed that one off. I also delivered newspapers from
>age 11 to about age 14. I didn't make shit per year but spent a
>lot of time delivering. Not only that, back then we had to go and
>collect each month. The newspaper sent ME a bill, and I had to
>get the money from the people first. Pay my newspaper bill then
>keep what was left over...never much and only about 10% of the
>people would include a tip.
>
>When it comes to the past and the 'good ol days', Sheldon lived
>in an alt.universe. 
Yes, my son did a paper route and that's exactly how it went, child
labour laws notwithstanding. Now many areas do not even have paper
delivery because so few people want an actual newspaper, so the papers
can suck it up, they oiled their pot when they could.