CURBSIDE ETIQUETTE Through the Eyes of a Delivery Goddess

Below you will find links to dates when new entries are added. The stories will not necessarily be in chronological order, but rather as I remember them. I am dating them so that you can skip to new ones you haven't read since the last time you visited, and so that you are more easily able to find something you found humorous to share with others. HOME Curbside Etiquette is... Origin of "Delivery Goddess" Apr 28, 2008 Apr 29, 2008 May 8, 2008 May 10, 2008 May 11, 2008 May 12, 2008    Bear Hug May 16, 2008    Floating Ember May 20, 2008    Life in Reverse May 21, 2008    Never Flipped a Pie May 22, 2008    Bragging Bites May 23, 2008    Zombies Among Us May 24, 2008    Pizza GIRL May 31, 2008    Open Sesame June 1, 2008    Curbside Vanity June 2, 2008    Punji Sticks June 3, 2008    A Little "Touched" June 4, 2008    Geronimo June 5, 2008    Half Droopy June 6, 2008    Exact Change June 8, 2008    Can't Stack Up June 9, 2008    Problems With One June 10, 2008    How High Can You Count? June 11, 2008    Watering the Grass June 12, 2008    No Park Bench is Safe June 13, 2008    Candle Light Dinner for Two June 14, 2008    Game Night June 15, 2008    Stealth Sewer June 17, 2008    No Trespassing June 18, 2008    Borrowed Papers June 19, 2008    My Pizza STINKS! June 20, 2008    View from Above June 21, 2008    Booby Trapped June 23, 2008    Value in the City June 24, 2008    Dipstick June 25, 2008    Meet in the Middle June 27, 2008    Dead Tags, Part 1 June 28, 2008    Dead Tags, Part 2 June 29, 2008    Unspoken Deputy June 30, 2008    Dead Tags, again July 1, 2008    Dressed for the Occasion July 2, 2008    Home Wrecker July 3, 2008    Crystal Ball July 4, 2008    Paper Boy In Training July 6, 2008    Join the Party July 7, 2008    Louie July 8, 2008    Rots of Wroughts July 9, 2008    Eight Lonely Days July 18, 2008    You Dropped One July 19, 2008    Victim of Boredom July 20, 2008 &nbps; &nbps;Turn That Noise Down July 24, 2008    Partners in Crime July 25, 2008    High Voltage Scare July 26, 2008 &nbps;  Mobile Office July 26, 2008    But it Didn't Rain

Paper Boy in Training A few days ago, Bob reminded me how wonderful it was for him to train me to deliver papers. I was working at the local Sunoco during the "graveyard" shift in an effort to bring in my own income. Bob was delivering the Post Gazette, and the North Hills News Record at that time. He came in every night at 1am to pay for gas and read his mail from the Post Gazette route. My shift was over by the time he came back in the morning for the News Records. (as a side note, the Tribune Review bought out the News Record about 5 years after I met Bob - we both had News REcord routes, and both lost a ton of income when we were not rehired as Trib carriers). I rode with him for a couple nights per week, (my nights off from the Sunoco where I was working) for a few weeks before he thought I was ready to work a day or two for him and give him a day off once in awhile. We were not dating - he was dating someone else, I believe I was otherwise married getting ready for a divorce. The first night was garbage night in Hampton. Keep in mind, that Bob had around 800 customers - EIGHT HUNDRED STARTS AND STOPS each night. He drove a five-speed mini-pick-up truck, and while he really was a pretty smooth driver... how smooth can you really be stopping every two to five mailboxes? Unfortunately, one of the things I inherited from my mother was an uneasy stomach ... it never occured to me to take Dramamine®. I know we stopped a number of times for me to get out and toss my cookies; anything from an empty Tide® box to a bucket of broken pieces of wood ... whatever I could find. It was a horrible night. I have to give Bob credit - when most people hear someone else being sick, they sympathetically get sick too. He was completely unsympathetic, er- uh .. I mean, ... it didn't make him sick, too. I knew that everyone would sleep better tonight, knowing how I got involved in newspapers.