Similar for me. I delivered in about 1972. Paid $2.15 per week. One day, one of my customers asked me to cut his lawn for $5. I had just learned how to divide

Similar for me. I delivered in about 1972. Paid $2.15 per week. One day, one of my customers asked me to cut his lawn for $5. I had just learned how to divide and calculated the hourly wage for delivering ($0.37) vs. yard work ($2.50) and immediately resigned the paper route. Today, it's a guy in a VW Passat cruising around the neighborhood. I wave to him as I walk the dog each morning. It was actually sad to see the newspaper shrink year after year, starting in the mid 2000s. Then, the paper company started engaging in dark patterns that had them increasing the subscription cost without any notice and I finally dropped them. Media has been in a death spiral since then, with no emerging source to take the place of providing relevant and reliable information about what's going on that matters. It's deeply troubling.