The Paper Boy

 ...orange is the new pink...

Duncan has a paper route: 60 papers two times a week – Wednesday and Friday.

He gets 1.5 cents per paper and an extra half a cent if there is a flyer insert, which there is, today.

This works out to $5.00 a week. If a friend sleeps over, Rebecca usually gives both of them $5.00 each for the day – just an incentive to keep going.  Doesn't this mean she is loosing 300%, mathematically speaking.

Rebecca and Steve accompany him on the walk.

... doing homework after papers ...

The added bonus is that while they get no pay, they do get exercise.

 I don’t know who bought the shoes for Duncan – well, I do know that.

What I don’t know is where Duncan gets the taste for the colour of the shoes.

I noticed that orange is the colour that is “in” when I go to Moores Men’s Wear and see the mannequins – each with an orange tie.

Duncan is not sure if the marshmallows are
decomposing, disintegrated or deydrated.

But to get neon orange – I would have had to bribe someone to wear shoes that colour and here Duncan is doing it of his own free will.

Rebecca is happy for the shoes double as a safety warning – no need for a reflective jacket with shoes like that.

In her own closet she has a pair of slippers, a gift from her friend in the Netherlands.

... Rebecca's slipper  hostess gift ...

Apparently orange is the national royal colour and the colour of their sporting events.

Orange.

The new pink.

Arta