Friday, December 01, 2006

Sublime. And Informative.

This commenter at Althouse calls the experience of being the first to open the paper in the morrning "sublime." That brought back a happy childhood memory.

As I was growing up, my parents subscribed to both a morning and an afternoon newspapers. But they didn't get the Sunday paper by home delivery.

Instead, because we were all nightowls, my father--usually accompanied by one of the kids--would go to a corner market and pick up a copy of the Sunday paper right after it was delivered to stores on Saturday nights.

It triggered a weekend ritual, the entire family tearing into the thick Sunday edition, sprawled out at different places in the living room, reading, a late movie playing on the TV, as we sipped Coca-Colas and munched on the popcorn my dad had popped.

Sublime. And informative.

Sigh.

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