Ok, I kid you not.

Here is the deal.  You can deliver phone books, the colorful one, and make some extra money. So, to find out about it,  I have to go to a meeting…’it’ being so secretive and all. I guess that is why the meeting is in this abandoned warehouse.

First, there are all kinds of rules.Put the books in the plastic bag, leave them on THE HINGE SIDE OF THE DOOR (it is that important), and then fill out your paperwork correctly.  They want a first name of each business person who gets the books for the office. This is because  the people calling ‘by hand’ (their words, not mine) can verify it all.

You are totally responsible, for your own car, gas, and if you step on flowers in someone’s yard–omg, for the flowers too. If you come near a mailbox, they threaten, the post office will fine YOU $500.

And, you get paid 10 days after you do a route and after you have turned in all the paperwork, and after they have audited the route. I s*** you not.

So, I says, if my son works hard, and is relatively good shape, and hustles, how much can he make? “7-8 bucks an hour, ” says the guy.  We are paid 22 cents a book to deliver them, about two cents a pound in another words.

Not counting the hernia expense nor gas.

Oh, one question. “What do we tell the people who ask about re-cycling the books?” says Al Gore (wannabe).

“Tell them to read inside the front cover, it tells them there,” boss guy says.

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