Post by crosshair on Sept 8, 2009 18:26:14 GMT -7
Well I finaly got some time. Mondays comics bring back some memories of years ago when my family did paper routes.
The best one involved my brother. One house on his route had this cat that would sit on top of the chair next to the picture window that was next to the front door. Well, almost every day this cat would be sitting there and then jump at the window and hiss at my brother. Rather unnerving at 5:45am.
After a few months of this my brother gets sick of it and decides to fight back. So one day he goes around the back of the house and around the front and hides under the window. Sure enough the cat is there waiting for him to come down the sidewalk. He jumps up in front of the picture window, not 2 feet from the cat, and screams"YAHHHHH". The cat leaps sideways in shock. Then grabs onto the curtains to keep from falling and the curtains/curtain rod break loose. The whole curtain/curtain rod come down, knocking over a couple lamps and the plants on the table in front of the window with a loud "CRASH". The cat is now thoroughly tangled in the curtains and is frantically trying to get out, spreading the mess around even more.
My brother, now laughing hysterically, delivers the newspaper and quickly moves onto the next house. He was still laughing when he got home a half hour later to tell us about it.
There was another where the dog would come to the door and bark at me, but was like Kashmir in the fact that his/her braking system was not up to snuff. So it would go like this: *bark* *bark* *bark* *bark* *bark* *bark* *THUNK*..........*bark* *bark* *bark* *bark* *bark* *bark*. I was annoyed by most of the dogs that barked at me, but I always loved delivering to this house. I think there were some days where the dog knocked itself out cold because after the *THUNK* there was no more barking.
There was another where the dog would just poke its head though the curtains and watch me deliver the paper.
At one house they started to put their dog on a ~25' long rope tied to a ~8" tree in the front yard. The dog would see me coming and start barking and running. By the time I had gotten to their house that dog had wrapped itself around that tree to the point that it was tight up against the tree. It did this EVERY DAY. After a couple weeks they tied the dog to a stake in the ground on a much shorter rope. The dog still ran in circles, but no longer got so badly tangled up. Sometimes I would be a jerk and stand 1' outside of the ropes reach. I wouldn't taunt the dog or anything, I just stood there. Drove that dog crazy.
Another would always be in the bedroom on the far end of the house and come running across the house to bark at me in the window. It was funny to listen to them coming.
Most didn't bark at me after they had gotten used to me, but allot them would on rainy days when I wore my orange poncho. I delivered 80 newspapers in a front/back newspaper bag. It looked REALLY weird.
The best one involved my brother. One house on his route had this cat that would sit on top of the chair next to the picture window that was next to the front door. Well, almost every day this cat would be sitting there and then jump at the window and hiss at my brother. Rather unnerving at 5:45am.
After a few months of this my brother gets sick of it and decides to fight back. So one day he goes around the back of the house and around the front and hides under the window. Sure enough the cat is there waiting for him to come down the sidewalk. He jumps up in front of the picture window, not 2 feet from the cat, and screams"YAHHHHH". The cat leaps sideways in shock. Then grabs onto the curtains to keep from falling and the curtains/curtain rod break loose. The whole curtain/curtain rod come down, knocking over a couple lamps and the plants on the table in front of the window with a loud "CRASH". The cat is now thoroughly tangled in the curtains and is frantically trying to get out, spreading the mess around even more.
My brother, now laughing hysterically, delivers the newspaper and quickly moves onto the next house. He was still laughing when he got home a half hour later to tell us about it.
There was another where the dog would come to the door and bark at me, but was like Kashmir in the fact that his/her braking system was not up to snuff. So it would go like this: *bark* *bark* *bark* *bark* *bark* *bark* *THUNK*..........*bark* *bark* *bark* *bark* *bark* *bark*. I was annoyed by most of the dogs that barked at me, but I always loved delivering to this house. I think there were some days where the dog knocked itself out cold because after the *THUNK* there was no more barking.
There was another where the dog would just poke its head though the curtains and watch me deliver the paper.
At one house they started to put their dog on a ~25' long rope tied to a ~8" tree in the front yard. The dog would see me coming and start barking and running. By the time I had gotten to their house that dog had wrapped itself around that tree to the point that it was tight up against the tree. It did this EVERY DAY. After a couple weeks they tied the dog to a stake in the ground on a much shorter rope. The dog still ran in circles, but no longer got so badly tangled up. Sometimes I would be a jerk and stand 1' outside of the ropes reach. I wouldn't taunt the dog or anything, I just stood there. Drove that dog crazy.
Another would always be in the bedroom on the far end of the house and come running across the house to bark at me in the window. It was funny to listen to them coming.
Most didn't bark at me after they had gotten used to me, but allot them would on rainy days when I wore my orange poncho. I delivered 80 newspapers in a front/back newspaper bag. It looked REALLY weird.