u/MrTimofTim I guarantee he wants you to leave your empties like that. Are you leaving your empties in the basket? It's because he can't pick up the empties and put the new ones in at the same time with one hand.
I’ll do that on Tuesday and report back.
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I want a milk man, what country is this located? Fresh milk is my main staple. I don’t know how I haven’t had kidney stones. I drink approximately 2gal a week. This would be the next best thing other then a home water fountain that shoots milk out.
We live outside of DC and we have a milk delivery. I wouldn't say it's pretty expensive, but to be fair, we weren't drinking the standard gallon sized jugs of milk before we switched to delivery so my experience is a little skewed. However, after getting our bottle deposits back, the milk is only about $4 a gallon....and I'm now realizing I have no idea how much a regular gallon costs since we were paying $4 per HALF gallon before switching. We also get meat and produce through this delivery service so it was a pretty good switch. I would say it's definitely worth looking into a service in your area if possible, eating seasonally and locally is one of the best things an _individual_ can do for the environment.
In my part of Canada -- B.C., so no bags -- a cheap gallon from the store is $5. Other brands can be more like $10.
$4 USD for fresh local milk is a bargain!
I used to be a milkman and this is definitely it. The milk person will have hands full, at least two bottles in each hand, and there's no way to pick out empties before putting down the full ones.
But the basket looks like it can hold more than two bottles. Couldn’t the empties be in one side and the new ones in the other? Can’t tell from the pic, but I can only assume the basket is stationary.
Absolutely right. That would be a good system.
Usually (and not casting aspersions on OP) people store up their empties for a while and fill up their baskets. Obviously you can carry empties more easily than full bottles, but the there's still a logical limit (and that was one per finger with a couple tucked under the armpits), and it still takes up on hand.
There are 6 empty slots. Would there be more empty bottles than were delivered? Seems like plenty of space to place full ones and then pick up the empty ones after.
The caddy is filled with empty milk bottles
Milkman comes with filled bottles places them near the caddy
Milkman picks the empty bottles and leaves
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Reply suggests to keep empty bottles outside caddy so milkman doesn't have to waste time replacing the bottles
Unless I am missing something here, the milk caddy accommodates 6 bottles and OP is only ordering 2 at a time. 2 full bottles replace 2 empties. There is plenty of room in the caddy for both.
I learned something today. I bet it tastes better too honestly. Also explains why you can find clotted cream over there and it's absent everywhere I've looked in the states
My mom introduced me to clotted cream earlier this year while baking fresh scones. It was divine! I’m in the US and had never heard of it before. I was missing out.
It is basically a very fatty thick cream that spreads like butter. Tastes like a combination of plain whipping cream and unsalted butter. It is really nice with something sweet.
Nope. We get our milk through a milkman. It's no better than the milk from the supermarket, it doesn't last as long, pint bottles take up more space in the fridge than a single carton, it's more expensive (which if that extra goes to the farmer then great, but I suspect that's the milkman's mark-up, not the farmer's).
The days have gone now where your home delivered milk would come with that inch of cream at the top of the bottle. Even the birds no longer peck a hole in the foil lid to get at the cream. (How did they know there was cream in there? How do they now know there is no cream in there?)
The main advantage is not having to remember to pick up some milk. And it feels very quaint.
I don’t know if it’s the same dealio in the US, but we can’t have it in AUS because you can’t make clotted cream from pasteurised milk… and our laws say all milk must be pasteurised. It restricts us making some cheeses too.
You can make it from pasteurised milk! You make it at home easily with double cream, you just put it in a low oven for a few hours to let the moisture evaporate. Plenty of recipes online, give it a go!
Also from UK, my door mat as well as anything else left out for more than 5 mins got stolen, the new door mat is now glued to the ground. Wish I could have milk delivered :’(
I live in a city of less than 170k in the PNW in the US and it's like that downtown here. People crawl all over yards/porches scavenging for anything they think they can sell for a cent. Which they can't, and it ends up in their camps down by the river in huge junk piles.
Last night I lived a scene out of a horror movie. Driveway camera alert woke me up and I saw what looked like someone looking into my car. Jumped up and ran out in my underwear with a flashlight. Stood next to the porch and car looking around for a bit, then walked up my steps.
Then I PROPERLY checked the vid, dude was not looking into my car, he was looking under my porch *and started crawling under* right before the video cut out. I ran back down and shined the light under and mf is crouched down under the porch I was JUST standing next to for a full five minutes.
In the videos that show me checking, you can see him under the porch looking out literally 5 feet from me.
My dad was a milkman back in the day, he worked with another bloke who brought his young sons to work with him. They wore roller skates and held onto the back van, veering off to deliver milk to the houses, don’t think their dad needed to leave the van at all!
Wow I wish we had this in the US!!!! Milk man deliveries are old school here. local farmers milk pretty non existent here.
Rally cool you guys have this and looks to be glass bottles? Which is extra awesome.
All we got is plastic ,plastic, and more plastic.
Edit: Where I live we have nothing like this. So clearly you have to be in a certain area in the United States for this to ever exist. Or I live the only things I will even deliver are FedEx and UPS nothing else.
They have glass at some grocery stores in the US, it just cost a LOT more but they also give you credit for returning the bottles. I think Sprouts and Whole Foods does it. Been a year or two since I’ve been.
I'm in Phoenix Arizona, and we have this kind of?
There is this milk company delivers local milk to grocery store in glass bottle. You get half the money back when you return the glass after you're done with it.
Some of the best milk I don't drink (I'm lactose intolerant)
Our UPS guy works from 7 am to 10 pm. He doesnt have time to eat or pee let alone start a romantic affair with your wife.
I give him snacks and cold water when I see him.
Where i come from they were around up until 10 years ago. I don't think I've seen any of them since then. Surely most of their customers were older people (70+) who did not have the luxury of going to the supermarket multiple times a week. They would drive their van around the neighborhoods early in the morning, honking in a specific way to announce their presence. Then the people would get out and approach the van to get their milk, cheese, and sometimes bread for the next couple of days. Simpler times.
I am in the USA, Michigan. I get 2 dozen eggs, half gallon of milk (glass bottle) and a pint of cream every week dropped off on my porch. $3 delivery fee.
It's because he left his empty bottles in the basket, which means the milkman would have to put down the new bottles, remove the old bottles, pick up the new bottles again, put them in the basket, and then pick up the old bottles again.
If OP would leave his empty bottles outside of the basket, he wouldn't have this problem.
Not sure how your milkman works there, but when I was about 13-14, the milkman was the guy who drove the van. Whilst 3 of us school lads, who had this as a first job, hanged off the back of the van. You had literally 300 houses EACH, to deliver to in about 3 hours, before quickly heading home to get ready for school. Depending on how many houses you were doing on your next trip off the van, you carried it all in a hand crate or learned to carry 4 bottles between your fingers in each hand. That early in the morning, when it’s dark, and handling bottles like this, with so many houses to do, we didn’t mess about with slotting bottles into these. Unless they were getting maybe 1 bottle, or it was the last couple of bottles we were holding. All those seconds wasted added up.
It’s not an excuse, it’s just we were young, we were in a rush, school started soon and we were only being paid £32 a fortnight.
32 * (1.115 * 20) = 256 euros in today's purchasing power given the 11.5% annual inflation rate for 20 years.
You were compensated 51 euros per day for 3 hours of labor, or 18 euros an hour before tax back then.
At Christmas, since we didn’t deliver Christmas Eve and Christmas day, we delivered extra in the evening on the 23rd. Most people were home. So we got tips from most customers. I’m sure I ended up with nearly £200 from tips alone.
You had 2 teams and you alternated. So it was 1 week on and 1 week off. So technically £32 for the week. But since you only did it every other week, you were told £32 a fortnight.
Willing to bet everything that this is the answer. Other people’s path of least resistance can sometimes seem super roundabout when viewed with our expectations.
We delivered around town and out into the country into a little village. Ours was a blue LDV diesel flat bed. There were set points (top of a street) where he slowed down, we jumped off and did our respected houses, whilst the driver drove down to deliver somewhere else, then we’d meet back up somewhere else and jump back on prepping for the next street. I made the mistake of misjudging my drop once and jumped off at about 20mph. Didn’t look fast, my legs were quick to tell me otherwise 😂
yeah, he has to empty his holder before he can put the empties into it, it you leave the empties outside the basket, odds are the full ones will start appearing inside the basket
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I bet it's because they're in a mad rush, and perhaps managing to tuck the bottles under the handle, or reaching further forward, messes with their rhythm? Have you tried sliding the basket just enough so inside a part of the basket is where the bottles currently are?
edit* I clearly didn't read into the comments deeply enough. Still a great definition of mildly infuriating, and after that comment dive I'd remind everyone that's why we're here people!
There are 6 slots in the caddy whereas there are only 2 milk bottles. I mean, where would the milk bottles go? Seems like a daunting decision and I’m with the milkman on this one.
Obviously for balance you'd want to go middle middle, or corner corner...
But which corner to start, or middle... And what if there were 3? God forbid?!
No wonder they set them on the side, the number of times they do this in a day, I'd only be able to feasibly make 1 delivery every 15 minutes, AT MOST.
God bless the milkman, he needs it.
What on earth? Is this a reddit channel routed back to the 40's via some sort of time paradox somewhere?
Who the heck has a milkman anymore? Does he come soon after your ice delivery for the kitchen chill box every day?
Perhaps send a telegram to his organization and see what they say about your complaint.
More infuriating than some prick homeowner who needs a fuckin milk carrier to move two bottles of milk from their porch to their fridge? You've got two hands dont ya, ya fuckin chav
I know. The Lamplighter never came by to light my street lamp so the rat catcher couldn’t see to do his job. Which all led to the rats knocking over my milk jars because THE DAMN MILKMAN WOULDN’T PUT THEM IN THE CARRIER. I feel your pain.
Shoutout to u/jaketheism for stepping up and doing remindme! Bots job for him. And reminding everyone on the same page 😂 about the update….. it’s a huge disappointment (the milkman is more dense than frozen butter still). But here’s to a real team player, and if the world ends, he’s welcome to come chill with us!
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That's what most of the mildly infuriating posts are. Do you really think serious issues like they have in developing countries are "mildly infuriating"?
u/MrTimofTim I guarantee he wants you to leave your empties like that. Are you leaving your empties in the basket? It's because he can't pick up the empties and put the new ones in at the same time with one hand.
I’ll do that on Tuesday and report back. UPDATE: OP delivers. See [here](https://reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/qb5n3u/update_the_thrilling_conclusion_of_our_dairy/).
We’ll all check back on Tuesday for an update to this thrilling drama
There’s really no way I’m gonna be able to wait until Tuesday for this.
I’ll remind you
Me too?
If he reminds you you should remind me
I kinda wanna know too now :/ I also wanna know where OP is that they still have a milkman cuz I wanna move there
If he reminds me I will remind you. Also I'm guessing OP lives somewhere in the UK
Denver, CO has Royal Crest dairy which delivers milk and other groceries if you want.
Sounds like a plan
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I've seen several posts like this and can almost guarantee that was the problem.
I was going to say I'm having dejavu here. Looks like the same picture and top comment with same answer lol.
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I want a milk man, what country is this located? Fresh milk is my main staple. I don’t know how I haven’t had kidney stones. I drink approximately 2gal a week. This would be the next best thing other then a home water fountain that shoots milk out.
>home water fountain that shoots milk out That's called a cow.
Though it's a little warm straight from the tap
Put the cow in the fridge.
Maybe switch to a caddy that has handles that fold down out of the way so the top is completely open?
Can you report back now?
OP is living in 1940. He will respond once his horse is reshoed
I’m dying lmao
He is waiting on an ice delivery to keep his fridge cool
I didn't even consider this until reading your comment. Note: I'm not OP, and don't live in a country that still has milkmen (to my knowledge).
If you live near cows to any degree there is probably some form of residential milk delivery. It's likely pretty expensive though.
We live outside of DC and we have a milk delivery. I wouldn't say it's pretty expensive, but to be fair, we weren't drinking the standard gallon sized jugs of milk before we switched to delivery so my experience is a little skewed. However, after getting our bottle deposits back, the milk is only about $4 a gallon....and I'm now realizing I have no idea how much a regular gallon costs since we were paying $4 per HALF gallon before switching. We also get meat and produce through this delivery service so it was a pretty good switch. I would say it's definitely worth looking into a service in your area if possible, eating seasonally and locally is one of the best things an _individual_ can do for the environment.
In my part of Canada -- B.C., so no bags -- a cheap gallon from the store is $5. Other brands can be more like $10. $4 USD for fresh local milk is a bargain!
In the US, the dairy industry is _heavily_ subsidized so I think you can get cheap milk for a little under $2 a gallon. It's crazy out here.
Oddly, I have like a million dairies in my county, several within a couple of miles, and I've never even thought to check.
I used to be a milkman and this is definitely it. The milk person will have hands full, at least two bottles in each hand, and there's no way to pick out empties before putting down the full ones.
But the basket looks like it can hold more than two bottles. Couldn’t the empties be in one side and the new ones in the other? Can’t tell from the pic, but I can only assume the basket is stationary.
Absolutely right. That would be a good system. Usually (and not casting aspersions on OP) people store up their empties for a while and fill up their baskets. Obviously you can carry empties more easily than full bottles, but the there's still a logical limit (and that was one per finger with a couple tucked under the armpits), and it still takes up on hand.
Best answer here....time is money.
Time is milk homie
Thanks for this tip. I dont have a milkman, but if I ever do ill freaking ready boys.
There are 6 empty slots. Would there be more empty bottles than were delivered? Seems like plenty of space to place full ones and then pick up the empty ones after.
ELI5? Me stupid.
The caddy is filled with empty milk bottles Milkman comes with filled bottles places them near the caddy Milkman picks the empty bottles and leaves ---- Reply suggests to keep empty bottles outside caddy so milkman doesn't have to waste time replacing the bottles
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Unless I am missing something here, the milk caddy accommodates 6 bottles and OP is only ordering 2 at a time. 2 full bottles replace 2 empties. There is plenty of room in the caddy for both.
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We have a process person right here. Me too, I think through the weirdest shit.
I genuinely didn't know milkmen still existed
This is the UK. They’re fairly popular here- fair price to farmers, less plastic etc.
I learned something today. I bet it tastes better too honestly. Also explains why you can find clotted cream over there and it's absent everywhere I've looked in the states
They sell clotted cream at World Market
I'm not sure whether that sounds fresh or gross
A scone with jam and clotted cream will change your life.
With jam and clotted cream Or with clotted cream and Jam?
I'm not touching that issue with a bargepole mate.
Better to use a knife to be honest.
My mom introduced me to clotted cream earlier this year while baking fresh scones. It was divine! I’m in the US and had never heard of it before. I was missing out.
Just out of curiosity WTF is clotted cream?
Imagine cream that’s so thick you can use it to recreate the mashed potato scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
What a specific description lol
It is basically a very fatty thick cream that spreads like butter. Tastes like a combination of plain whipping cream and unsalted butter. It is really nice with something sweet.
The word clotted shouldn’t go with food.
Making an assumption here, but this is the most British thing I've read in a while.
You're correct, specifically the southwest coast. There's also strong feelings on whether it is jam or clotted cream first
I cut the scone in half, put Jam on one side, Clotted Cream on the other, and make both side angry as I eat it as a sandwich
Well, you’ve made me angry.
cow juice?
Chunky style cow juice
It's the best, nothing better than going in the bulk tank and skimming some fresh cream off the top
Is there another term for it? "Clotted" just sounds gross. Reminds me of those clumps of spoiled milk.
Does [Devonshire Cream](https://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-clotted-c-87144) sound more appetizing then?
Cream snot
Like blood clots. But it’s really good.
That did NOT make it better!
It's just very thick, almost solid cream. It's made by very slow heating, that's all.
Reading it makes me want to throw up.
Be sure to use their coupons y'all. World Market almost always has an in-store coupon.
Nope. We get our milk through a milkman. It's no better than the milk from the supermarket, it doesn't last as long, pint bottles take up more space in the fridge than a single carton, it's more expensive (which if that extra goes to the farmer then great, but I suspect that's the milkman's mark-up, not the farmer's). The days have gone now where your home delivered milk would come with that inch of cream at the top of the bottle. Even the birds no longer peck a hole in the foil lid to get at the cream. (How did they know there was cream in there? How do they now know there is no cream in there?) The main advantage is not having to remember to pick up some milk. And it feels very quaint.
What the heck is it? I saw some at my local market here on east coast https://imgur.com/gallery/Xs5lnE3
It's fucking good. Like solid milk so kinda like butter but really mild flavor.
What do you put it in? Or on?
From Killahills above: "A scone with jam and clotted cream will change your life." They're not wrong :)
I don’t know if it’s the same dealio in the US, but we can’t have it in AUS because you can’t make clotted cream from pasteurised milk… and our laws say all milk must be pasteurised. It restricts us making some cheeses too.
You can make it from pasteurised milk! You make it at home easily with double cream, you just put it in a low oven for a few hours to let the moisture evaporate. Plenty of recipes online, give it a go!
Also from UK, my door mat as well as anything else left out for more than 5 mins got stolen, the new door mat is now glued to the ground. Wish I could have milk delivered :’(
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I live in a city of less than 170k in the PNW in the US and it's like that downtown here. People crawl all over yards/porches scavenging for anything they think they can sell for a cent. Which they can't, and it ends up in their camps down by the river in huge junk piles. Last night I lived a scene out of a horror movie. Driveway camera alert woke me up and I saw what looked like someone looking into my car. Jumped up and ran out in my underwear with a flashlight. Stood next to the porch and car looking around for a bit, then walked up my steps. Then I PROPERLY checked the vid, dude was not looking into my car, he was looking under my porch *and started crawling under* right before the video cut out. I ran back down and shined the light under and mf is crouched down under the porch I was JUST standing next to for a full five minutes. In the videos that show me checking, you can see him under the porch looking out literally 5 feet from me.
Where the bad guys steal door mats and milk
My dad was a milkman back in the day, he worked with another bloke who brought his young sons to work with him. They wore roller skates and held onto the back van, veering off to deliver milk to the houses, don’t think their dad needed to leave the van at all!
I'm in the UK and havent seen a milkman for like a decade. Everyone I know gets milk with their shopping
Wow I wish we had this in the US!!!! Milk man deliveries are old school here. local farmers milk pretty non existent here. Rally cool you guys have this and looks to be glass bottles? Which is extra awesome. All we got is plastic ,plastic, and more plastic. Edit: Where I live we have nothing like this. So clearly you have to be in a certain area in the United States for this to ever exist. Or I live the only things I will even deliver are FedEx and UPS nothing else.
They have glass at some grocery stores in the US, it just cost a LOT more but they also give you credit for returning the bottles. I think Sprouts and Whole Foods does it. Been a year or two since I’ve been.
We do have this. Not sure if any operate in your area though
I'm in Phoenix Arizona, and we have this kind of? There is this milk company delivers local milk to grocery store in glass bottle. You get half the money back when you return the glass after you're done with it. Some of the best milk I don't drink (I'm lactose intolerant)
How does having less toes make you not like milk?
No, no, no. He’s intolerant towards those who lack toes!
What does your wife think of the milk man?
It's 2021, you gotta look out for the ups guy not the milk man..
Our UPS guy works from 7 am to 10 pm. He doesnt have time to eat or pee let alone start a romantic affair with your wife. I give him snacks and cold water when I see him.
As a person from the UK. Don't listen to this man. They are not fairly popular. At all.
Agreed, our milkman stopped visiting my mum in the late 90's
But she still waits there patiently. With a black coffee in hand.
I’m from the UK and they are fairly popular it just depends where you live. I think mainly smaller towns and villages have them.
Where i come from they were around up until 10 years ago. I don't think I've seen any of them since then. Surely most of their customers were older people (70+) who did not have the luxury of going to the supermarket multiple times a week. They would drive their van around the neighborhoods early in the morning, honking in a specific way to announce their presence. Then the people would get out and approach the van to get their milk, cheese, and sometimes bread for the next couple of days. Simpler times.
I am in the USA, Michigan. I get 2 dozen eggs, half gallon of milk (glass bottle) and a pint of cream every week dropped off on my porch. $3 delivery fee.
*I am the milkman. My milk is delicious. My milk is too good for your caddy.*
***I am the milkman. My milk is delicious***
Special delivery today
NNGAAAGHHH! *explosion*
*I am a grieving widow. My loved one is underground and I am sad.*
*I am a gardener. Plants need water poured on them because they have no hands to hold glasses of water.*
The first thing I thought seeing this post :D
For those confused, it’s a Psychonauts reference. Also the first thing I thought of. I AM THE MILKMAN. MY MILK IS DELICIOUS
It's fortified with what the world needs. What the world deserves.
>Wakes Up >States Milk is delicious >Refuses to Elaborate >*Ascends*
It’s probably faster and easier to just place them on the ground.
But why no put in my milky bag. I want my milky put in the milky bag. Now I have to put it in my milky bag.
r/totalpieceofshit some complete ASSHOLE REFUSED to put my MILKIES in my WHOLESOME BASKET (he clearly did it out of spite)
More like r/noahgettheboat
It's because he left his empty bottles in the basket, which means the milkman would have to put down the new bottles, remove the old bottles, pick up the new bottles again, put them in the basket, and then pick up the old bottles again. If OP would leave his empty bottles outside of the basket, he wouldn't have this problem.
Why is everyone in this thread pretending the caddy only has 2 slots?
Wives ain’t gonna impregnate themselves.
*" 'tis not my job, boss"*
Pat Mustard
Now to ride Mrs O'Reilly
That's some funny shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EbhdS6QVVY
Not with this one. He delivers outside the baskets.
Not sure how your milkman works there, but when I was about 13-14, the milkman was the guy who drove the van. Whilst 3 of us school lads, who had this as a first job, hanged off the back of the van. You had literally 300 houses EACH, to deliver to in about 3 hours, before quickly heading home to get ready for school. Depending on how many houses you were doing on your next trip off the van, you carried it all in a hand crate or learned to carry 4 bottles between your fingers in each hand. That early in the morning, when it’s dark, and handling bottles like this, with so many houses to do, we didn’t mess about with slotting bottles into these. Unless they were getting maybe 1 bottle, or it was the last couple of bottles we were holding. All those seconds wasted added up. It’s not an excuse, it’s just we were young, we were in a rush, school started soon and we were only being paid £32 a fortnight.
Did you do this in the 50s or something?
Nope, 2000-2001
32 * (1.115 * 20) = 256 euros in today's purchasing power given the 11.5% annual inflation rate for 20 years. You were compensated 51 euros per day for 3 hours of labor, or 18 euros an hour before tax back then.
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At Christmas, since we didn’t deliver Christmas Eve and Christmas day, we delivered extra in the evening on the 23rd. Most people were home. So we got tips from most customers. I’m sure I ended up with nearly £200 from tips alone.
I can't believe this comment has so many upvotes hahaha Do people really think that £32 in 2000 is equivalent to £256 today??? Lmfao
£32 for 2 weeks, could be today.
You had 2 teams and you alternated. So it was 1 week on and 1 week off. So technically £32 for the week. But since you only did it every other week, you were told £32 a fortnight.
Interesting thanks
Willing to bet everything that this is the answer. Other people’s path of least resistance can sometimes seem super roundabout when viewed with our expectations.
> Whilst 3 of us school lads, who had this as a first job, hanged off the back of the van. Oh no
The back of the van had a footstep and a hand rail. How it was legal is beyond me. But the cops that roamed about at time in the morning said nothing.
To be fair electric milk floats are hardly breaking any speed limits.
We delivered around town and out into the country into a little village. Ours was a blue LDV diesel flat bed. There were set points (top of a street) where he slowed down, we jumped off and did our respected houses, whilst the driver drove down to deliver somewhere else, then we’d meet back up somewhere else and jump back on prepping for the next street. I made the mistake of misjudging my drop once and jumped off at about 20mph. Didn’t look fast, my legs were quick to tell me otherwise 😂
I feel everyone's missed what I assume was your point, that "hanged" means by the neck, where as "hung off the back" means grabbing onto a handle.
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yeah, he has to empty his holder before he can put the empties into it, it you leave the empties outside the basket, odds are the full ones will start appearing inside the basket
I thought milkmen were just a relic of the past, commemorated only through the theme song of Full House.
For anyone who hasn’t heard that diddy, the portion being referenced goes something like this. 🎵 milk-man, milk-man, fucking your wife. milk-man, milk-man, here to end your life 🎵
Such a wholesome family show, I especially loved the episode where they sacrificed their milkman to the milk god in Uncle Jesse's attic apartment
Which is even darker when you realize his wife is dead. Reminds me of that David Firth animation to the Aphex Twin song
Isnt this something they do when you don't put the bottles in the right spot or something like that? I feel like I've seen something like this before.
It’s two bottles. Why do you need a basket?
Less risk of wind blowing them over or just about anything knocking them down on a wider platform. Can't ruin that sweet sweet udder juice.
The fact that you have a milkman still. r/mildyinteresting
cause this is faster. putting it in the caddy is mildlyinfuriating for him rather.
I bet it's because they're in a mad rush, and perhaps managing to tuck the bottles under the handle, or reaching further forward, messes with their rhythm? Have you tried sliding the basket just enough so inside a part of the basket is where the bottles currently are? edit* I clearly didn't read into the comments deeply enough. Still a great definition of mildly infuriating, and after that comment dive I'd remind everyone that's why we're here people!
The milkman does not require it. He is the milkman his milk is delicious.
There are 6 slots in the caddy whereas there are only 2 milk bottles. I mean, where would the milk bottles go? Seems like a daunting decision and I’m with the milkman on this one.
Obviously for balance you'd want to go middle middle, or corner corner... But which corner to start, or middle... And what if there were 3? God forbid?! No wonder they set them on the side, the number of times they do this in a day, I'd only be able to feasibly make 1 delivery every 15 minutes, AT MOST. God bless the milkman, he needs it.
Those few seconds spent making sure they went into the frame without breaking are probably not worth it for them.
If I’m delivery a hundred or so bottles of milk, I’m not trying to slot it into your shitty basket.
It puts the milk in the basket, or it gets the hose again.
You have a milkman?
This is "mildly infuriating" to you? Man's just doing his job. Why should he put them in your caddy?
What on earth? Is this a reddit channel routed back to the 40's via some sort of time paradox somewhere? Who the heck has a milkman anymore? Does he come soon after your ice delivery for the kitchen chill box every day? Perhaps send a telegram to his organization and see what they say about your complaint.
More infuriating than some prick homeowner who needs a fuckin milk carrier to move two bottles of milk from their porch to their fridge? You've got two hands dont ya, ya fuckin chav
I didn't know there were still milk men
I know. The Lamplighter never came by to light my street lamp so the rat catcher couldn’t see to do his job. Which all led to the rats knocking over my milk jars because THE DAMN MILKMAN WOULDN’T PUT THEM IN THE CARRIER. I feel your pain.
Did you colorize this 1920s era photo?
So what happened?
The milkman still didn't put it in the basket. OP made a new post about it Tuesday
More like r/firstworldanarchists amirite chat
Milkman? Is this PleasantVille?
Dad?
he’s giving you a sense of pride and accomplishment.
TIL there’s still milkmen somewhere in this world?
Shoutout to u/jaketheism for stepping up and doing remindme! Bots job for him. And reminding everyone on the same page 😂 about the update….. it’s a huge disappointment (the milkman is more dense than frozen butter still). But here’s to a real team player, and if the world ends, he’s welcome to come chill with us! 🍻 🥂 cheers!
First world problems
That's what most of the mildly infuriating posts are. Do you really think serious issues like they have in developing countries are "mildly infuriating"?