[Sgt_Tropo]

I guess I was either luckier or smarter than the average kid. I took over a paper route that was for the Houston Press, now defunct. The good thing was that it was an afternoon route. The bad thiong was that I had to start rolling the papers immediately after school let out and didn't get done until after dark. I had 150 papers to deliver, all by bike. It took me two trips because my racksacks could only hold a total of 125 papers.
The route was hard, but the worse part was the collecting and the folks that couldn't or wouldn't pay.

Anyway, I gave up the route after about 8 months and started selling Sunday papers (Houston Chronicle) outside a neighborhood store on Saturday evenings. I sold the papers for 15 cents and got to keep a nickle each. The two biggest headlines I remember hawking were when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon and when President Kennedy was assasinated. All the others paled by comparison to those. I've still got a copy of each in a sealed plastic bag.