chase4 Loc: Punta Corona, California

Home milk deliveries still happen in some areas we have been told, but the' older brigade’ will no doubt recall both milk and bread had regular home deliveries.

Enjoy, here is a collection of notes left in milk bottles....

** Dear milkman: I've just had a baby, please leave another one.

** Please leave an extra pint of paralysed milk.

** Cancel one pint after the day after today.

** Please don't leave any more milk. All they do is drink it.

** Milkman, please close the gate behind you because the birds keep pecking the tops off the milk.

** Milkman, please could I have a loaf but not bread today.

** Please cancel milk. I have nothing coming into the house but two sons on the dole.

** Sorry not to have paid your bill before, but my wife had a baby and I've been carrying it around in my pocket for weeks.

** Sorry about yesterday's note, I didn't mean one egg and a dozen pints, but the other way round.

** When you leave my milk please knock on my bedroom window and wake me because I want you to give me a hand to turn the mattress.

** Please knock. My TV's broken down and I missed last night's Coronation Street. If you saw it, will you tell me what happened over a cup of tea?

** My daughter says she wants a milkshake. Do you do it before you deliver or do I have to shake the bottle?

** Please send me a form for cheap milk, for I have a baby two months old and did not know about it until a neighbour told me.

** Please send me details about cheap milk as I am stagnant.

** Milk is needed for the baby. Father is unable to supply it.

** From now on please leave two pints every other day and one pint on the days in between, except Wednesdays and Saturdays when I don't want any milk.

** My back door is open. Please put milk in 'fridge, get money out of cup in drawer and leave change on kitchen table in pence, because we want to play bingo tonight.

** Please leave no milk today. When I say today, I mean tomorrow, for I wrote this note yesterday..

** Milkman, please put the coal on the boiler, let dog out and put newspaper inside the screen door. PS Don't leave any milk.

** No milk. Please do not leave milk at No. 14 either as he is dead until further notice.

rogerl Loc: UK (Harrogate, North Yorkshire)

We still, quaintly, have milk delivered. It used to one pint daily but deliveries have reduced to three times a week.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Cute!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Very funny

Skate Loc: Kilgore, TX

This is funny - if you have lived over there - and had put a plastic cup out for the milkman to cover the top of the bottle to keep the birds from pecking through the aluminum foil cap..... you will understand....... everyone leaves a note for the milkman or breadman.....

DavidPhares Loc: Chandler, Arizona

When I was in Scotland for two years in the early 60s milk was delivered by a horse drawn wagon. The horses were Clydesdales and Shires. The horse would slowly walk down the middle of the road, and the milkman would run around taking milk off the wagon and deliver it to the homes. The horses knew the route. When the route was completed, the milkman just sat on the back of the wagon, and horse took him back to the milk barn. Those were gorgeous animals, and very well cared for.

Being from Arizona, on our days off we would go down to the dairy and they would let us ride the those huge, beautiful horses. It was like trying to straddle your car! We would take each horse an apple. What a hoot.

The milk was pasteurized but not homogenized. We had to shake it up to get the cream at the top to mix with the skim milk.

Fat Gregory Loc: Southern New Jersey

I drove a "Stand Up" Milk Truck one summer when I was home from University... what a hoot!
First things you learn are the brake and clutch pedal are the same!!! And how to carry bottles in a wire carrier without making any noise.

sagittta Loc: In the woods of Michigan

I also drove a "Stand Up" milk truck. You are right about the brake and clutch pedal. You had to double clutch the thing. Remember that the other foot was running the gas. It was a 4 speed on the tree. The one I drove you could twist the gear shift for gas. I do not know if I could get all the parts to work together now. It was interesting.

jack schade Loc: La Pine Oregon

Jack

Orson Burleigh Loc: Annapolis, Maryland, USA

Delivering fresh dairy products on that thing must have been a good test of early morning mental acuity - It sounds as though that vehicle could only be operated by a driver who was cold stone snober.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Your truck was a Devco I believe., maybe not, The devco you twisted the gear shift knob to get reverse

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

Funny!!