**Smart Alick**

To start from the beginning... Eric had a 10 day mandatory lay off the week before Christmas up until New Years. In the course of that time, a good friend of ours, who does a paper route all the way up in Grangeville, wanted a day or two or three off so he could spend time with his family. So Eric graciously agreed to help him out. Besides, it was a little extra income coming in during the lay off. Eric delivered 3 days at Christmas and on New Years. Shawn told us he's pay us when he got paid from the Tribune. No big deal, right? Here's what our payment was.......

.......Two Lewiston Morning Tribune paper holder 85% full of PENNIES. I can't tell you if that's $2oo dollars or not. Those suckers are HEAVY! We dumped them out in hopes that there would be a few paper dollars in the mix. Yea... no. I am so not looking forward to taking this to the bank, I won't even be able to carry it in and I'm not going to a Coin-Star, they are going to charge me. But we got a bottle of Scotch out of the mix. I guess Shawn figures we need to be drunk enough to take something like that to the bank. I think I'll tell Eric next time Shawn asks, we need to demand CASH up front.