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     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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