What would be our life without the paper boy?

Mimpi, Strangely, I had to go through this experience of not having the newspaper delivered a couple of days back. Both my dad and me have this habit of reading the newspaper in the morning with our cup of tea. So here i was with the cup of tea ready to read the paper but alas!, there was none and my dad had this pretty annoyed and frustrated look on his face.He kept pacing about from the living room to the front gate. The reason was evident. No amount of watching the new on the TV would give him the satisfaction of reading the paper. So what did I do ? I had to take a walk down to the stand and get the newspaper for him. Fortunately it is close by. Coming to think of it, the paper boy and his timely delivery of the newspaper in the morning can make such a difference to the calmness and serenity in a homely atmosphere especially with aged parents who have made this habit a part of their lives. No paper boy, difficult situation, but then one has to adjust. It would mean one more task for me in the morning of purchasing it from the stand. But since it means something to my dad, then why not ?

Hmmmmmmmm What a discussion and really reasearch to pinpoint it Dear Mou, if u look around Only then u will notice that their are lot of little things happening around u to comfort ur life and many people are involve in it and if they stop working then just imagine how would be ur life u r right if u dont have thios person then u have hassle to go and bring paper, not for myself but for my father as he is addicted to HARD copy only Take care

It will be really a scary and difficult sittuation, if the paper boy does not turn up. I myself get restless (and my spouse too) when we see our newspaper man at the scheduled hour. It has become a habit of sort to read the newspaper, even after watching news at TV. I love to read it and I just do not enjoy TV news. There is a newspaper stall, which is some half a kilometer away from our house, if the newspaper boy does not come, I rush to that stall to fetch my newspaper. The day looks incomplete to me, without a newspaper.

I have managed to live without the paperboy because he comes to my building only after I leave for office. I was a paper addict but now manage to live without the paperman in my life because he is not punctual. Though once upon a time he was a very important person in my life. I could never start the day without a visit from him in the mornings! On holidays I make my daughter walk to the stand (I am too lazy to do that!).

I do walk up to the stand to buy one everyday on my way to the store to buy bread for breakfast. Here in our place, we do not have paper deliveries like in nice subdivisions. But on days that i do not buy bread then, i just surf the net or watch news on tv.

thats nothing if we have a internet connection we have noo use of paper we will get all news in the internet thanks to internet

oh yes... i can really relate to that as we also use paper boy when i was still very little... the paper boy used to deliver the paper in the afternoon in my place and my father will read it after his work when he is resting and having his tea break... he still use that back in my home country as he is not into technology people... it is very hard to get him to read the news online as he doesn't like to stay in front of the monitor... he preferred to read his newspapers on the bed... take care and have a nice day...

Even with the internet, I prefer reading the newspaper. You've given me a scary scenario..lol I really can't go on without the newspaper. If I can, I'd walk up to the stand to buy myself one...I like to feel the newspaper..and not just read the news online.

i was a paper girl for about a year i made some serious money i had one section i worked that paid me 900.00 dollars a month and i had another that paid me about 650.00 i paid my morgage out of this money. and bought food.so i know how much people love there paper in the morning and especially the sunday paper. and my clients was good to me on holidays they gave me as much as i was paid doing this time of year i miss it sometimes because i enjoyed doing something for people.

We don't get the paper all the time. Just another thing to not get around to reading, and then have to pick up all the shredded pages our girls leave every where! lol. I think they should also bring back the milkman and the bread man. Our society has forgotten the simple pleasures of saying hello to someone who brings them the milk/paper/bread. I think societies lack of manners comes from the depersonalisation of contact.

The state of American newspapers is in question right now. My husband is the editor of our local daily paper. The internet and television has nationally taken a HUGE chunk out of the market. Many big cities are laying off or firing up to half of their employees. My husband would be thrilled to know that there are still die-hard newspaper readers out there. There is a fear that only the very small papers (with communities who would get their news no other way) will survive unless innovations are not made soon with existing papers.

Once i cant think without a paper boy bcz he z the supplier of daily paper, magazine. But when i connected with the internet i dont think that paper boy is necessary.

when i was growing up it was conventional to have the typical paperboy delivering a paper My Dad worked with the newspaper and we kids adored receiving a paper from some classmate that did delivery i have great memories of chatting with him so on so forth

I think I am in between where this discussion is concerned. If you don't want to have a newspaper delivered-but you still want the news-then what about the radio.At listening to the radio allows you to do many other things that reading a newspaper won't.For instance you could turn the volume up and do house-hold chores,have a bath,put on your makeup to go out or go to work. Just think you could multi-task instead of fighting your father for the newspaper or going out and buying one. If you are so desperate to get your fix of the news that is all lies anyway buy yourself a portable radio listen to all the drivel hourly.

Newspaper have become life line for some of us.

Sometimes we have gone every day to buy a paper, but usually we like to get it delivered. When they throw the paper short and it lands in the neighbor's flowers or on the middle of the stairs, sometimes we get annoyed, but then we think how convenient it is even so. Delivery has been very reliable over the years. Where we live now they have never missed a paper. Remarkable. At our last place they missed once or twice a year.

If not for access to newspapers online or having newspapers delivered to work, I probably would walk to the stall and buy one myself. So does your father recycle the old newspapers too? "He is just a regular guy but he carries the state on his shoulder." I like this quote.