Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for April 08, 2020

tsk, tsk, tsk

In my day I used rubber bands/.

In the 1960’s I was a paper boy, and Wednesday’s papers were normally pretty thick, and I had been known to have one or 2 do this on people’s porch! Especially the high ones!

What the sheet are you up to, CB?!

Try to do it while you ride a bike.

I rolled them tightly and did not throw them. Though one day the street was flooded and Old Pete was on the other side instead of taking it around the long way, he said, “Just throw it.” Yep, guess where it opened up. Fortunately, I carried an extra and that one made it to him.

LOL Oy!

This was laugh out loud this morning.

That’s why God made rubber bands.

As a kid, I don’t remember the use of rubber bands. The paper boys knew how to wrap the paper tightly and it was tossed gently, not thrown with force. Later on, though, I DO remember rubber bands…. after THAT, I worked for the newspaper and brought one home every day for free.

Most of my paper route customers either requested I put the unfolded paper into the screen door or had a special newspaper-friendly mailbox. The carriers that new how to do those tight tube-shaped papers that could be tossed from the street were magical to me…

Hey ya’ll prepare yourself for the no rubberband man / You’ve never heard a sound / Like the no rubberband man / You’re bound to lose control / When the no rubberband starts to jam

I’ve used both the tightly-rolled with rubber bands method, and the folded-and-tucked method. The tightly-rolled could be thrown much farther, but the fold-and-tuck were more fun to throw, as they “sailed”… ☺

I bet he didn’t have that job for long.

Doh! Don’t walk away like it didn’t happen CB! Go fix your mistake and learn from it.

And today fewer pages for CB to throw, if there still is a hometown print newspaper. : (