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dolariOkay. The Waffle Crisp story.
So, back in 1996, I was working delivering newspapers. Don't knock it. I made $700 a month doing that, and, in 1996, that was enough for me to live comfortably on my own. If a little tight.
It was really too tight, though. I spent every dollar I had on trying to keep my head above water (a lot like today), and luxuries were hard to come by.
So, I was happy to hear that Waffle Crisp was having a big giveaway through the Sunday newspaper! YAY! They were providing every person with a Sunday subscription one small childsized box of cereal, already sealed in the newspaper plastic wrap!
I took enough for my route, then took about 20 more than I needed for some tasty breakfasts - they were free, and we had more than enough.
But the cereal ended up being a nightmare. The wrapswere sized like normal Sunday Paper wraps...but they now had a box of cereal attached to the end. The waxes barely held the papers. As I assembled the papers and threw them into the back of truck, the paper would just fly out of the wrap, making me get back into the truck, reassemble it, and gently place it on the bed.
The way I threw the sunday papers was my dad would drive the pickup around the route, and I would be standing up in the back toss papers as he pointed out the houses that needed papers. Except for this night - I'd throw a paper, and it would splay across the driveway. Sometimes the section holding the box would tear off and fly under a car.
I tried delivering papers several different ways until I gave up trying to deliver it from the back of the truck at all, and instead, just walked next to the truck, gingerly picking up papers from back of the bed laying them on the driveways.
At the end of the day, I had some extra papers, so in total, I had 30 of these Waffle Crisp boxes. And I was angry at them. I knew I threw at least one of the boxes into a creek in anger after we were all done. And I don't like wasting food.
They next day, we were thankes for a good job, since EVERYONE was complaining about the boxes. How were we thanked? We were given all the extra boxes. In the end - I ended up with probably forty boxes of Waffle Crisp, a cereal I was angry at.
But damn if it wasn't good.
So, back in 1996, I was working delivering newspapers. Don't knock it. I made $700 a month doing that, and, in 1996, that was enough for me to live comfortably on my own. If a little tight.
It was really too tight, though. I spent every dollar I had on trying to keep my head above water (a lot like today), and luxuries were hard to come by.
So, I was happy to hear that Waffle Crisp was having a big giveaway through the Sunday newspaper! YAY! They were providing every person with a Sunday subscription one small childsized box of cereal, already sealed in the newspaper plastic wrap!
I took enough for my route, then took about 20 more than I needed for some tasty breakfasts - they were free, and we had more than enough.
But the cereal ended up being a nightmare. The wrapswere sized like normal Sunday Paper wraps...but they now had a box of cereal attached to the end. The waxes barely held the papers. As I assembled the papers and threw them into the back of truck, the paper would just fly out of the wrap, making me get back into the truck, reassemble it, and gently place it on the bed.
The way I threw the sunday papers was my dad would drive the pickup around the route, and I would be standing up in the back toss papers as he pointed out the houses that needed papers. Except for this night - I'd throw a paper, and it would splay across the driveway. Sometimes the section holding the box would tear off and fly under a car.
I tried delivering papers several different ways until I gave up trying to deliver it from the back of the truck at all, and instead, just walked next to the truck, gingerly picking up papers from back of the bed laying them on the driveways.
At the end of the day, I had some extra papers, so in total, I had 30 of these Waffle Crisp boxes. And I was angry at them. I knew I threw at least one of the boxes into a creek in anger after we were all done. And I don't like wasting food.
They next day, we were thankes for a good job, since EVERYONE was complaining about the boxes. How were we thanked? We were given all the extra boxes. In the end - I ended up with probably forty boxes of Waffle Crisp, a cereal I was angry at.
But damn if it wasn't good.
