[HPforGrownups] (OT) Boxing Day

[Denise Rohleder]

No: HPFGUIDX 7134

to the dustmen, postman, milkman etc.  Nowadays, she gives it to the 


<<<<<<<hygiene engineers>>>>>>>>>


, delivery officer and dairy distributor, but she still does it.
It's usually money... and in an envelope, not a box.

What on earth, Neil, is that?  (Another American lost in the waves of Briton terms...)

Dairy Distributor--that's the Milkman, right?  The father of all the babies in the local neighborhood that the mailman missed?

Delivery officer?????

On another point, Boxing Day here used to have a funny tale (Canton, Ohio).  We were told in school it was called hence (from a stupid teacher, one who was the opposite of Ebony & Co.!) because of all the boxes and trash leftover and carted away by the trashmen (you call them dustmen, right Neil?)/garbage men.  It was also called it due to all the boxes adults carried back to the store Dec 26th to return for the proper sizes, wrong colors, just something Aunt Hilda bought with no taste....

That's when I decided that answer was stupid, and started looking to find out.

My honest assumption, now, as an adult?  The teacher had never heard of the holiday before I pointed it out that day on the room calendar!

~LOL!~

Dee

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