[FoxInSocks]

Even though it was not officially "my route", I felt like a big shot walking down the streets with a sack of newspapers bouncing off my hips. I determined that this was what I wanted to do and I started to check in with the "bossman" at the paper distributor to the point of annoyance, to find out where I was on the waiting list.

Reminds me of the Beverly Cleary series of books, and specifically "Henry and the Paper Route." I read those books a million times. Henry went through all those stages exactly as described. Interesting.

[cyclotic]

There was another series too, The Great Brain. Fun books about boys growing up in Utah in the late 1800’s