[uncommonsense]

"Does anybody remember those metal newspaper vending boxes that used to be everywhere? You would put a quarter or two into the box, pull a handle, and take out a newspaper."

That's funny, I thought you were going to say

"put a quarter or two into the box... and take out a handful of newspapers"

Oh for the days when a newspaper stayed in your yard and the milk bottles stayed on your porch until you fetched them!

[21twelve]

“put a quarter or two into the box... and take out a handful of newspapers”

Another reminder of my miss-spent youth. Had a paper route for MANY years. Every so often you would be short. Either a mistake on the company, or another carrier taking some of your papers if they were short.

Would ride the mile on my bike to the corner store, and drop in a quarter and take however many I was short. Then submit my paperwork that I had to go out and “buy” four newspapers so they could repay me! Although I seem to recall in my later years that I figured out the paperwork wasn’t worth it.