Red and Rover by Brian Basset for July 29, 2012

Thanks Red – the world appreciates your effort!

Love your approach to news, Red…my paper boy should be half as entertaining as you and Rover with your “happy talk”!

As long as it lands on the front porch, Red. These days, (if you subscribe to a paper), its usually at the foot of your driveway.

Did he grow up to be the mail man I have now who also misses the box?

Ha ha! Love the one on the roof in the last frame!

Great work Red but you still need work on your aim.

Red, I think there will be less levity and a lot more negativity when you hear from your route customers – out of three newspapers, I see the first one on the roof, the second in the bushes, and the last one by the sidewalk near the hedge (not a lot of distance in that toss).

Not sure the neighbors will see your aim with the same levity as you are, but since you’re not my paperboy, have fun!

I had a route as a kid (long ago). Afternoon paper. Six days a week. Rain or shine. Usually rain… Not much pay…what fun.

I love it! I sold Grit newspapers during the summers when I was a kid living in the boonies of the Texas Panhandle…no subscriptions so you had to walk to the door – ring it, and ask if they wanted to buy one. It sold for 20 cents of which I got a nickle. I had to walk all over town for less than 2.00. But I sold most, if not all of my papers and heck, I got lots of cookies and iced tea from my customers and had money to go to the pool, etc.

Daily delivery paper was folded flat and interwoven

so I side-armed it Mon-Fri on my routes back in 1965-68.

It would sail like a Frisbee.

Sundays was too thick so we had to roll and rubberband it.

Overhead throw and make it hop and skip down the sidewalk

to the porch and to the door…….“WHUMPPPP”

My daily paper still ends up on the front porch. Sometimes they even hang the bag on the storm door lever. I wish they wouldn’t since it pokes holes in the bag and when I use it for trash, some tries to escape.

Red lives in a real nice neighborhood. Some how I thoughht he lived in a smaller house.