CLOSE UP by Brian Rudnick

 

The winter is not fun, especially when it snows. YOU GOT TO BE SKILLED TO DO THIS. Well after a while you get a little knack to it. It’s all wrist and elbow, on the wrist, repetitive motion injuries. You’re doing this every day, you’re flipping and it’s all elbow and wrist so after a while you get sore. My shoulders hurt mostly when the papers are particularly heavy. The black Friday paper, Thanksgiving Day paper, the thing probably weighs about five pounds and everybody gets one.. . ARE YOU THE GUY THAT THREW THE NEWSPAPER THROUGH MY NEIGHBOR’S DOOR? ‘Yep, that was me. WHAT HAPPENED? I think it was a Saturday or Sunday paper and I was trying to get it up on that little landing and it just kept going and knocked the pane of glass out and I can fix that, it would cost me maybe $30, She called the people that come out and fix your glass, it was $250.WAS THAT ON YOU? Oh yeah. Edward Jones, newspaper deliveryman.

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