Sorry that there is not a little more formatting at the mo: I have lots of fantabulous designs down on paper and in pre-planning, just the coding and the graphics take a lot of time to make and do... time which I don't have right now.
So here we have the soon-to-be-world-famous SIXTEEN TON(ne) AWARDS!
Anything that pisses me off in a big way, or things that need setting to rights in a big way right now will end up in here. I will be accepting and vetting suggestions for other entries shortly.
I have a great number of things I want to put in here :-) but at this time I can only think of, and find time for, one thing...
THE BASTARDS WHO PISSED ABOUT WITH MY NEWSPAPERS THIS EVENING
(I have in fact a lot of things to do with my paper round, but this one is particularly off-pissing).
Now, you may or may not know that I consider myself to be a normal, everyday 17 year old guy, with a standard desire to buy every little thing that I see, especially CDs, Computer games and magazines. As well as christmas/birthday/etc gifts, this all comes out rather expensive. So last year, after failing to get any kind of job at all (i applied for about 15 different employments before giving up), I decided to take the 'easy' route out and get a paper round.
It's not been too bad so far, a set number of newspapers (235 copies of the Sutton Coldfield News) and a variable cluster of other leaflets, mini newspapers and magazines. For the amount of work I do, I recieve a fairly reasonable wage that's kept my bank account in the £400-£450 area for the last six months.
Every now and then, however, things happen that make me wonder if doing without music, reading materials, and decent presents would be worth not doing it. Things like crap letterboxes, monster deliveries, snow... and tiny-brained vandals.
People who thinks it's 'fun' and 'cool' to destroy or damage other people's stuff. Who think it's big and clever, whilst i'm off down a side road using my shoulder bag to post a small number of periodicals, to pull some papers out of my crappy trolley parked by the main road and chuck them in the middle of the street..
No, they couldn't have been blown by the wind. I was nearing the end of the round and there wasn't very much in the bag. The level was way below the top and the cover was pulled over them as it was raining.
Yes the rain made them very wet. There were already some puddles on the road but thankfully fate decided to position them elsewhere.
No, I didn't have any surplus on that day. Sometimes I have a few extra papers, but not last friday. And if people get missed out, they start complaining, and my job goes. And then where am I?
So when I see the situation, I have to run over, pick them up as much as possible (thankfully I got all of the pages), and spend the next half hour under the shelter of a tree near a streetlight (oh, did I mention it was about 9pm??!) trying to reconstruct them to a nearly-deliverable state. BASTARDS!
More similar, but higher quality and better set-out rants in the near future!
Not to be missed!!!
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