[floydpink]

I tell my kids about riding my bike through rain and snow on my bike with bag strapped on filled with newspapers and making 2 trips on Sundays due to the size of the papers.

My mom only felt sorry and drove me on a very rare occasion of a blizzard.

More than once, I wiped out on ice and had to pick up scattered papers off the road and put them back together and I remember a particularly mean German Shepard that never quite caught me although he tried for years.

I knew all my neighbors by name and for a 12 year old, the money was pretty good.

My newspaper route, shoveling snow from driveways and hot walking horses at the racetrack after they ran excercises at 5 am, I believe, gave me the work ethic I carry today in my 40's and probably explains why I feel that today's youth is lazy and has no idea what growing up really means...