Re. The milk man, I can only tell you how it still works here to this day. You place an order initially for the number of required pints or litres and they deliver it every morning while also collecting your used, washed out glass bottles, then they come round on a Friday evening to collect the money. But this is obviously specific to this area. Everywhere else will be different.
I still have a milkman. The milk is usually left on the doorstep and I get a bill once a month. Pre Covid they would come to the door every couple of weeks for their money.
Milkmen made big money back in the day, now not so much people tend to buy from supermarkets now it's twice as cheap, it was more of a convenience back in the day, but with supermarkets & cars it's easy to transport back to house bigger containers will last a week in a fridge, back in the day not everyone could afford a freezer that's why milkman delivered daily. Also eggs, fresh orange juice & yoghurt. Hope that helps jay.
there are still what we call a doorstep delivery ,not like it used to be though , it was done on what we used to call a milk float , a three wheeled vehicle that was electric, and we paid for our milk weekly ... these days its a regular petrol driven vehicle...not so popular these days though .. probably more so for rural areas ..I am rural did have it for a while but for some reason the milkman couldn't find my front door and left it everywhere but ! so I cancelled it ...
It's a subscription to get the milk. Milkmen are still a thing, though less often as they are competing with the price of milk from the big superstores.
I think when I was young the milkman called for the money once a week. The local club I drink in has a recently retired milkman that goes in there. He said they were always self employed and did their own accounts. He said the Christmas tips were great. (But not from Rigsby )He packed in because the company said everything had to be ordered online. There were old ladies that had no idea how to order online and he couldn’t take the cash anymore. He saw a ghost once walking past a graveyard, just a sort of see through shadow moving along. I think his legs were worn out by the time he retired.
In the episode when the were having a seance they turned the lights off, Rigsby bumped into Brenda in the dark and you just heard him say “quite firm”. You had to imaging what he had grabbed hold of. By mistake of course. You could see they were all having trouble not laughing.
Did you know here in Britain we generally consider the term, Sue me as reclusive as very unbecoming in British society the thought of Sueing anyone is very parasitacal. The thought of sueing our own NHS is sickening to us. Unlike in America society, where it's normal
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-meqLD5l3o6w.html I wonder what Rigsby would have made of the place. I’ve only just realised the cat in Red Dwarf is in the show as well as Phillip.
Hi Jay I think there was a reference to cracking nuts. Back in the day people use to buy nuts with their shell cases on like walnuts, it was a messy job cracking nuts, not testicles. I think Rigsbys milkman was there to collect his Christmas tip bonus for a year's good delivery service, I've noticed recently that you are very good playing the intro music for rising damp & love thy neighbour on your organ keyboard 🎹.
Jay we had a milkman back in the 1970s & 1980s he delivered early morning we were still in bed he would come around Friday evening for payment. Rigsby was a great actor, they were good writers, if you get a chance to see steptoe&son Christmas special early 1970s Leonard rossiter is in it he plays an escaped convict it was a classic, there was a bit of pathos towards the end. I think if comedy has a bit of pathos it makes it more endearing.
