What flashes through your mind when your morning newspaper is not in the driveway?

[Baitball Blogger]

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	That you woke up in the wrong house.
	0 (0%)
	That you missed a payment.
	0 (0%)
	That the paper delivery service missed you on their route.
	0 (0%)
	That there is an article in the paper that someone in the neighborhood does not want you to read. (Which only makes it certain that you get it from another source.)
	1 (100%)
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[NRaleighLiberal]

1. probably better to have the title"when your paper is not there"

and have an option that someone stole it. Hard to answer otherwise! (because the theft is assumed - unless that is what you intended!)

[Baitball Blogger]

2. hee-hee.

You called my hand.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. never play poker with me!

hope you are well!

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Never better.

[pinboy3niner]

5. My first thought is "That lowlife rat bastard thief got it again! #@*&%!"

[Baitball Blogger]

6. The only good thing about it, is that it helps me isolate the information that is likely

to strike a nerve. Oddly, enough it is hard to pin down what shameless people care about even in a community that had to buy a confidentiality clause with a two million dollar settlement.

Of course, it could also be an incredible coincidence that an article that resurrected the name of a city attorney this last week was identical to the name of a HOA attorney that represented our community back in the nineties. It was a time when no one seemed to get a straight legal answer to point out what today is obvious, (at least to me). And that is, that the official turn-over of our Association had taken place in 1988, which meant that we were in control of our Association and our legal rights should have been recognized when the second phase of our development was up for city review in 1998.

Yeah. Good thing I also have an online newspaper subscription.

[BlueJazz]

20. LOL!..Same here...exactly.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. that I don't live in the Burbs or in a city/residential area.

[Special Prosciuto]

8. My recent Letter to the Editor.

[uppityperson]

9. When did they put a driveway in?

[Baitball Blogger]

10. It was part of a promotion.

They built driveways with ramps to help the paper delivery people bank their shots.

[rug]

11. That I flashed back to 1983.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. What happened in 1983?

Lots of paper thefts?

[rug]

17. The last great era of newspapers.

[kentauros]

38. That's about it.

I stopped subbing to The Houston Post not long after, and then the Houston Chronic bought them out.

[sakabatou]

13. Meh

[Ron Obvious]

14. Probably the realisation that I'm living in the 21st century

The same feeling I get when I don't see any rotary phones or manual typewriters around anymore, or when I bin the phonebooks and yellow pages the moment they come in.

[Baitball Blogger]

15. I may be one of the few who really likes the newspaper.

I also like the convenience of the online news. But some news needs to have a public record. You can't change newspaper clippings. They remain the same from the day you cut them out, to the day they yellow behind the cellophane scrap books.

[Aristus]

16. "Hey. It's a good thing there's no paper there. I'm not a subscriber."

Every morning, I come out to the driveway to go to work, and marvel at the continued lack of a paper there...

[hunter]

18. "Somebody stole it."

Lately we haven't had much trouble with that because I get up earlier than most people walking by.

[El Supremo]

19. That the newspaper is trying their best to make me go online only.

It is late all the damn time.

[Jamaal510]

21. I'm too broke to

pay for the paper boy to come to my place.

[Skittles]

22. when my ex movied from rural to the suburbs

one morning his dog brought him 17 newspapers

that's how he got to know his neighbors

[Baitball Blogger]

24. Oh, that sounds like a case of overtraining.

[shenmue]

32. Good doggie!

[Enrique]

23. that the Rapture happened

and I got left behind.

[Baitball Blogger]

25. Exagerado!

[MADem]

26. Since I don't subscribe to a paper, I'd have to say I'd be surprised if one WAS there!!! nt

[malthaussen]

27. "When did I get a driveway?" n/t

[kentauros]

37. You too?

Maybe it's a new tactic of the failing newspaper industry to give people driveways so that they'll want a newspaper on them every day.

[hobbit709]

28. I'd only be surprised if the local fishwrap WAS in my driveway since I don't subscribe

[mrmpa]

29. The delivery guy missed our whole building on Friday............

I woke up about noon, & the first thing my 84 year old mother said was "the paper wasn't at our door today." Now in order to have it delivered you have to call by 9:30 a.m., I'm way beyond that time & I'm not leaving the house to buy one.

I learned later in the day, that no one in the building, 200 units, where at least 50% of the owners have delivery service. Saturday morning when I wake up at noon, mom tells me that we got Friday & Saturday's papers.

Why deliver me a paper that is one day old? I've all ready read the news on the internet, listened to it on the radio and TV. On Sunday the paper was delivered along with an apology from the President of the newspaper apologizing for late delivery & non delivery.

[Baitball Blogger]

30. There was an article that I wanted to clip for my scrapbook.

Your news blackout is extraordinary. Never heard of a paper delivery person missing an entire block. And I know that other neighbors received their papers that day.

[shenmue]

31. Somebody ate it

Maybe a really hungry doggie who was out on a walk.

[Throd]

33. "Damn you, Obama!"

[Baitball Blogger]

34. We have a thread winner!

[Taitertots]

35. Newspapers still exist? n/t

[kentauros]

36. "When did I get a driveway?

"What's my landlord up to now? And how much is he going to add to my rent?"

[orleans]

39. i think "good! one less thing to recycle!"

i don't read it, i don't open it, i don't order it. it appears once every week or two and goes directly into the recycling can. (no news is good news)