Get your paper! Get your paper! Some
people would be glad those days are over. There is not so much nonsense having to deal with the paper boy busting your window as he throws your paper through the window again for the second time this year. Some might not be so glad. I have
heard In todays internet world there would be no reason for the old fashioned kind of newspaper, it would benefit us either way, we either save power and electricity or we save a tree. That is the argument, I say take your pick. I recently made that statement to someone who is an avid reader of the paper. She was not happy and at ninety-nine had lived long enough to have her opinion listened to and she was going to make sure that you listened she got her feathers ruffled once or twice over the newspaper conversation, but it was one of our daily routines and very favorite pastimes. She had alzheimers and if she
didn''t remember anything, she remembered her newspaper, she remembered the exact spot in the yard to walk to ,and remembered that was her focus. She remembered what time of day it would be delivered, and on what days she would be getting what paper. She loved her newspaper and she would
read the front page over and over all morning if you didn''t turn the page for her, or mention to her that she had read that. I would gently remind her, "so what is on the second page of that there paper." I would chuckle to myself quietly watching her adjust the papers and listen to the rustle of the pages, she
liked that the best, the rustling of the pages and on more than one occasion remarked how nice it was to be able to still read the paper and semi comprehend what was going on. She liked politics and she was very encouraged to keep reading, even if she didn''t understand. She liked all the information on the catholic diocese and the vatican as well. I once
worked for a newspaper company making phone calls to people all over the world to try to sell the newspaper to them. It was funny how many people still got the paper in my mind. I kept thinking why read the paper, when you can just get online. My homepage says everything I need to
know first thing in the morning. For so many years people who are generations and generations before me have read the newspaper avidly. And if you mess with that newspaper they will be very upset at you. On a daily basis people will read the paper, most newspaper readers do so religiously as far as I have seen. I once worked at a local convenient store and I heard every excuse in the book, that is where you hear the most newspaper stories ever told. It is quite entertaining the things you are told as an excuse or cover for someones religiosity at coming to pick up the local paper. I have heard, "my wife threw it out." I have heard, "the dog shredded it." I have heard, "It got stolen." "Do you have the newspaper, and do you have yesterdays back behind the register somewhere." I worked for a newspaper office actually delivering the newspaper, and the people whom you deliver to, have a very hard time adjusting to a new paper deliverer. There are always the ones, you know where you have to get out of the car and take it right up to the door, and then you gotta throw the next person''s over the fence, and then there is the house next to that with the box and the engine light is on in the car hope I make it through the route. There are the customers who call in and say they lost their paper even when you know specifically that you delivered it to them. They must have just wanted a free one, you think to yourself. Newspapers are a luxury in some places, a luxury on some days and maybe a little bit of an indulgence to the economical, earth saving, trg, environmentalist.
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