Daryl wrote --

The last few years living in the Miami, Florida area, I delivered my afternoon newspaper route on a bicycle.

I always walked my route.
The first paper job was here in the fall/winter of 1963/64 and a morning route.
I hated getting up early and wandering about in the dark.
When my widowed mother and I moved to Colorado Springs, CO in August 1964
I got smart and got an afternoon route. And that one was right on my way
home.
I picked up the paper across the street from the school, walked home
tossing them here and there. When I got about a block from home they were gone.
One memory sticks out clearly.
It was a warm afternoon and tossing on paper I was off a bit and instead
of landing on the porch it sailed through a open window into their living
room! I could never do that again if I tried.

I used the money from the paper route to buy a 10 speed bicycle.

I had a couple of those.
One was a Schwinn Suburban. It was a 10 speed on a three spreed frame,
which I referred to as "the station wagon of bicycles". :)
Coaster bikes were sedans, three speeds were the hard tops, a 10 speed
was a sports model and mountain bikes are SUV's.

When I bought a Timex watch

As John Cameron Swayze used to say about them: They take a licking and
keep on ticking.
My current watch is a Timex.
Doesn't say where it was made. Probably China. Everything else is.

But, masks are required on board, due to COVID-19.

Same here. Federal law.
I wear one only when I positively, no excuse have to. But its the last
thing to go on and the first to come off. Thankfully now the only place
those are required are buses and medical facilities.
Oh, and in cabs and the like.
Joe
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Joe,

When my widowed mother and I moved to Colorado Springs, CO in August 1964 I got smart and got an afternoon route. And that one was right on
my way home.

That afternoon paper went out of business long ago.

I picked up the paper across the street from the school, walked home tossing them here and there. When I got about a block from home they
were gone.

I got so where I could throw them from the bicycle, and make them go on
the porch of the residence.

It was a warm afternoon and tossing on paper I was off a bit and
instead of landing on the porch it sailed through a open window into
their living room! I could never do that again if I tried.

Somebody's meal just got ruined. :P

One was a Schwinn Suburban. It was a 10 speed on a three spreed
frame, which I referred to as "the station wagon of bicycles". :)

Mine was blue...but I don't remember if it was a Suburban. The one I
had growing up was a Sting Ray with a red "banana seat".

As John Cameron Swayze used to say about them: They take a licking
and keep on ticking.
My current watch is a Timex.
Doesn't say where it was made. Probably China. Everything else is.

But, where does China make their China??

I wear one only when I positively, no excuse have to. But its the
last thing to go on and the first to come off. Thankfully now the only place those are required are buses and medical facilities.
Oh, and in cabs and the like.

I'm the same way...although I saw a COVID-19 meme, where the guy doing
his shopping at Wal-Mart was dressed like he was going into a HazMat Zone.

Daryl

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