Child LabourThere is a special part of Hell I'd like to reserve for those arses that order every single Sunday paper. Do you know how heavy that makes the bundle of papers some poor kid (ie me) has to lug around? Funny how your papers always seemed to get mangled in your letterbox...
I loved my paper round, but, looking back, I was getting paid peanuts to ruin my back and cycle around in the cold and dark. How were you exploited as a child?
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chthonic, Fri 17 Feb 2006, 12:05)
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best child labour everwhen i was 14, i got a job collecting money for the dodgems, horses, and cyclone rides at an amusement arcade (barrys, portrush) when i were a lad.
i'll always remember the only training i got there - "wobblies and their keepers go free" - meaning "dont charge the phlid kids and their parents". one very earnest guy i worked with asked a loving father if his kid was disabled, which or course he wasnt. the dad's face was a hoot, he was quite angry.
i loved it there, but going round and round and round on the horses ride for 12 hours a day, six days a week, made me sick with dizzyness.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2006, 13:23, Reply)
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