I was not the one with the paper route but my friend who had it was always going away on vacation and I would assume his route while he was gone. I felt like it was mine because I was often doing collections and delivery. I remember using my friend's bike which was a 26" bike with an extremely large basket on the handle bars. When fully loaded which was all the time I would have a tough time controlling the bike. I never crashed but I was never comfortable until I had delivered a good bunch of papers. Fortunately I lived on the South Shore of Long Island in NY, which is very flat. So I never had to wrestle with hills. If there were hills I probably would not have been able to handle it. I don't remember making much money and eventually became a busboy at a local diner. That was when I started to make real money.