Friday Night Free for All

It's Friday and if not officially winter, it's still doing a good job of feeling like a winter's day. And not the "walking in a winter wonderland" winter's day, but the kind that I remember well from my paper run days many years ago. Bitterly cold, dark and periods of driving rain. I actually had a couple of different types of paper runs. First was the one night a week delivering the local rag - around 200 letterboxes to fill, but first a walk of a mile or so to my delivery area. Then the same again on a Saturday. Plus another occasional run of around 500 letterboxes delivering those plastic bags for clothing collections.

Eventually, I moved to Canada and progressed to a daily paper route of only 50 customers, but the papers were a little bigger. Especially the Saturday Paper - huge and heavy. It was great delivering them because the bag got markedly lighter with every drop off. Although the Winter delivery there provides a whole new level of "cold". I recall one night going door to door to collect the monthly bills (we paper boys also performed the debt collection, which wasn't so bad as tips made the whole exercise worth while) and the temperature was 20 below zero (Celsius). Indescribable. But with all this Global Warming, that shouldn't be a problem in these here parts?

(In my best Yorkshire accent) "Ah lad, back in my day, we had it tooff"

Evening all. Did you have a part time job in your early (or late) teen years? What kinds of jobs have you done? I've been the traditional kitchen hand, butcher's assistant and bartender (for a catering firm specialising in weddings), amongst other things. How about you? What's the strangest or most interesting job you ever had?