Paper Doll
My first job ever was a paper route bestowed on me at 12 years old by Matt Hammett because he had outgrown it (that is what happens when you get your drivers license). For the millenials reading this - a paper route was something back in the day when papers were PRINTED and not online, and you had to actually deliver them daily to people who paid for subscriptions. This was before the interwebs and cell phones. I delivered the Macomb Daily to 55 customers through rain, sleet, snow and wind. In the winter I'd load up the plastic sled with my papers, and walk the 55 customer route, delivering the papers to the inside of my customer's storm doors around Charter Oaks and Fox Chase. It usually took about an hour after school. On Sunday's, I would come to "collect". One of my customers nicknamed me the Paper Doll. This would later become my CB handle on trips down to Athens to visit Nana - the truckers LOVED it! In the winter, I would look like the Micheli...