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Were You Sent To Get The Papers When You Were Little?
I went to the newsagents for the News of the World and the Sunday Mirror.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I was a paper boy .
I recall an occasion in a week before Christmas , my uncle came to our house to take me to his house to spend some time with his family .
It was the day that i knocked on each door to hand the papers to each customer , instead of putting it through the letter box , so that i could collect my Christmas tips . Therefore the round took a lot longer to complete that day .
When I arrived back home my uncle was very crossed because he had to wait a long time for me
Well no powers on earth was going to stop me collecting my tips
News of the Screws as it was known, from my paper round I often found people had a serious paper like the Times and the rag as well. News and some amusment I suppose.
We had papers delivered - the evening Echo, parents went out early so no time for morning papers.
If I stopped with my grandparents in Brum I would walk round the shop with my Grandad to pick up a paper and 10 Woody's.
I used to have to go for the Sunday Express and The People. The Screws of the World wasn't allowed in our house! I only had a paper round that lasted for 3 weeks, during the winter of 1962/63. It wasn't the weather that caused me to give it up, it was my parents, who wanted me to baby sit my younger brother and make sure he got to school ok, as they started work early. Happy days! 😩
I used to buy my mother's cigarettes from the corner shop for her when I was very young, too - my mother refused to go in to the shop. It has been illegal to sell cigarettes to under 16s since 1908 but nobody took any notice. There were vending machines in the street that anybody could get cigarettes from.
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