h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have a scar in my forehead from when I fell down a flight of stairs and headbutted a toilet.

NO, really.


oh alright buggerit, it was a tiger attack. Happy?

Mornin' Troops.

no not really



Mornin

Don't cry!

Spork scars are the best kind to have!

Yeah much better than the daft scar I got in a hotel! I was reading and the phone rang, and as I went to pick it up I brushed the bedside lamp and it gave me a huge burn on my wrist!
And I've got various scars from angry girlfriend digging her nails into me to show me the error of my ways *really ought to do something about that*
And I've got a scar from walking into the side of a bus. Please don't laugh, I cut my shin and it bled all down into my sock!

That's nothing. I once knew someone who was knocked over by a milk float. (I mean, how could you not see - or hear - it coming?? )

A milk float?

I've been hit by a few vehicles in my time

Whatsa milk float?

It's an electric powered little vehicle that goes around houses at 5:30am dropping off milk to people. They also can deliver juice, yoghurt etc.
It's electric so that it doesn't wake people up and drives at about 20mph tops

Speed three was set on a milk float

I have a nice scar on my forehead from a "motorcycle accident" (I discovered a sea-chest at a daycare provider's house with my head)

I also have a perfectly straight scar on my inner forearm. A nasty burn recieved in the line of duty at a pizzaria I used to work at.

http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/400.html

et voila! one milk float...they haven't changed much over the years

True

Gee, dat's weird.

why how did you lot used to get milk?

I dunno.

I don't know where Esty's from, but in the US we need to go to the store to buy it. They sell it at convenience stores too, so most people don't need to go all the way to the grocery store just to get milk.

In my case, my closest grocery store is several miles closer than the nearest convenience store, so that's where I buy all our milk. This grocery store also happens to be located on a dairy farm, so the milk is pretty fresh, especially compared to the chain grocery stores which get their milk from... who knows where, who knows how many days (weeks?) earlier.

Oh we get our milk at the supermarket too! It's just that it CAN be delivered to your house as well and before...erm about the 60s I think, it was normal for milk to be delivered and then for you to get other things from the bakers, grocers etc. Nowadays everyone just gets milk along with everything else at the supermarket.

They stopped home delivery of milk in the US back in... oh about the early 60's I think.

We never had home delivery of milk though in those days - mainly because I lived on a farm, and we had a small herd of cows, so Mom would just have dad save a gallon for us a couple times a week.