Our readership has been known to lurk outside the local stores on Wednesday morning waiting to attack whoever delivers the papers as soon as they step out of the car. They literally THROW money at you and grab the newspapers out of your hands. If the paper is late, they call us and gripe about it constantly until it gets there. And don't forget or forgive either... Two years later, I'll get a phone call (at home of course) from an elderly person asking, "Is the paper going to be ON TIME this week or are you going to be late again?" ACK.
To the readership's defense - We live in an area primarily populated by elderly people and cattle ranchers. We don't have a movie theater or a shopping mall, so gossip is the main source of entertainment. Paper days are the days when they all congregate at the coffee shop or the post office with their newspapers to validate all the rumors they've been spreading around all week.
-SusanC.