wolf_exp
06-11-2006, 10:55 PM
OOOHhhh I love that title :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: .
Saturday night was my first experience with "the sunday paper". My oh my what a nightmare. First mission is to go to the paper place to pick up the inserts-- between 5:30am and 11:00 am. Since I had my van they just put the whole pallet on there. There is three layers on the pallet. Comics, coupons, and something else. The job is to take it home and you have all day to put these three layers together. No problem it seemed. The pallet was small for my run, heck-- cant be that bad.
WRONG. My girlfriend and I decide we can do this on our own. So I take cardboard and lay it out on the ground-- divide the three layers up-- so we can put them together and put the inserts back on the pallet in the truck. Once we get it on the ground her and I look at the papers like :yikes: :wow: . I look at the truck manifest and it says 900 some odd papers. :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: So I call my friends that usually do the run and say "Ok maybe I do need your help" I hear "We'll be over". Approximatly 4 hrs later my friends show up. Of course when everything is done. So this puts us at 11:00 and I have to be at the paper place to pick up the rest of the sunday paper. I shut the door-- and the nice little pile of papers on the pallet FALLS. Boy am I angry. So I stack everything not as high on the pallet-- but layed out over the van so no falls. Then I shut the door and my lock in back is all messed up. I cant unlock it from the key on the outside because its messed up-- so usually i leave it unlocked. I just reccently messed up the handle area on the inside cuz i was climbing out and it caught on my pants and ripped off. Its still there-- but the weight from the plastic sometimes locks the door. So I shut... well rather slam the door because im still mad about the papers falling over. Then I forget something and go to put it back in the van and (tug tug) LOCKED. Awww son of a.....yeah. LMAO. So I have to climb all over the papers to get to the back and unlock it. Finally do-- this time i know DONT SLAM THE DOOR.
So I get to the news place at 11:30 like they said because my load is 7th out. So im there-- have a "business meeting" with my friends about my run and the other run I help manage :zzz: . We decide how we are gonna do it and we decide-- im going to take the big companies -- so I get most of the papers. This puts a wal mart super store, wal mart regular store, two rays grocery stores, and like 5 gas stations. Oh and did I fail to mention wal mart has a 99 cent sale on sunday papers? So wal mart super store gets like 200+, wal mart gets 180, rays both get 120 in side plus 12 outside in the vending machines-- and the gas stations all got 50. There was papers all over!!!
So in 2 hours I got it done. Dropped of my friends-- and me and my girlfriend went home. I never saw so many papers in one place. I had a dream that night... of being surrounded by newspapers... everytime i would try to straighten it up... more would appear. Ok it was a nightmare. FREAKED ME OUT. Changes are gonna have to be made LMAO.
Saturday night was my first experience with "the sunday paper". My oh my what a nightmare. First mission is to go to the paper place to pick up the inserts-- between 5:30am and 11:00 am. Since I had my van they just put the whole pallet on there. There is three layers on the pallet. Comics, coupons, and something else. The job is to take it home and you have all day to put these three layers together. No problem it seemed. The pallet was small for my run, heck-- cant be that bad.
WRONG. My girlfriend and I decide we can do this on our own. So I take cardboard and lay it out on the ground-- divide the three layers up-- so we can put them together and put the inserts back on the pallet in the truck. Once we get it on the ground her and I look at the papers like :yikes: :wow: . I look at the truck manifest and it says 900 some odd papers. :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: So I call my friends that usually do the run and say "Ok maybe I do need your help" I hear "We'll be over". Approximatly 4 hrs later my friends show up. Of course when everything is done. So this puts us at 11:00 and I have to be at the paper place to pick up the rest of the sunday paper. I shut the door-- and the nice little pile of papers on the pallet FALLS. Boy am I angry. So I stack everything not as high on the pallet-- but layed out over the van so no falls. Then I shut the door and my lock in back is all messed up. I cant unlock it from the key on the outside because its messed up-- so usually i leave it unlocked. I just reccently messed up the handle area on the inside cuz i was climbing out and it caught on my pants and ripped off. Its still there-- but the weight from the plastic sometimes locks the door. So I shut... well rather slam the door because im still mad about the papers falling over. Then I forget something and go to put it back in the van and (tug tug) LOCKED. Awww son of a.....yeah. LMAO. So I have to climb all over the papers to get to the back and unlock it. Finally do-- this time i know DONT SLAM THE DOOR.
So I get to the news place at 11:30 like they said because my load is 7th out. So im there-- have a "business meeting" with my friends about my run and the other run I help manage :zzz: . We decide how we are gonna do it and we decide-- im going to take the big companies -- so I get most of the papers. This puts a wal mart super store, wal mart regular store, two rays grocery stores, and like 5 gas stations. Oh and did I fail to mention wal mart has a 99 cent sale on sunday papers? So wal mart super store gets like 200+, wal mart gets 180, rays both get 120 in side plus 12 outside in the vending machines-- and the gas stations all got 50. There was papers all over!!!
So in 2 hours I got it done. Dropped of my friends-- and me and my girlfriend went home. I never saw so many papers in one place. I had a dream that night... of being surrounded by newspapers... everytime i would try to straighten it up... more would appear. Ok it was a nightmare. FREAKED ME OUT. Changes are gonna have to be made LMAO.