[Misc] Do you have a milkman?

[LlcoolJ]

Honestly didn't know it was still a thing.

 

[Notters]

Yes. He charges 81p a pint (I think). We do it because a) it's a British tradition, and b) it's the best form of container recycling as all they do is wash the glass bottles and refill them. Anybody who says they 'care' about the environment and who doesn't like cars but buys milk in plastic containers can go stick their hypocritical heads up their hypocritical arses.

Happy Christmas.

Er.... How is having someone drive round the houses better than having one delivery to a supermarket?

 

[alfredmizen]

We do , called Ernie , top bloke, here's a video of him

 

[Bozza]

It seems I forgot to post a poll. We'll need to do this all over again. Sorry.

 

[Butch Willykins]

I'm eagerly awaiting the response from "Dr. No" on this subject.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

We did have a Milko for a while. Until an incident on the very steep part of the Drove in the snow of early 2010.

Shame as the Droveway dairy is only a few hundred yards down the road.

 

[Brovion]

Er.... How is having someone drive round the houses better than having one delivery to a supermarket?

A) They're usually electric vehicles for the house-to-house deliveries. B) You of all people should know how much energy and raw materials are used up in making and then disposing of (and hopefully recycling) single-use plastic containers. Glass milk bottles don't even need to be 'traditionally' recycled, just washed and re-filled. C) Some people drive to a supermarket just to get milk.

However it's a valid point about home deliveries in general. The streets of Britain are now clogged with diesel-powered supermarket delivery vans dropping off single bags of shopping that people have ordered on-line. Another thread perhaps.

 

[carteater]

Nope.

 

[Easy 10]

Not since I was living with my parents as a kid.

A fairly regular irritant was Saturday mornings. My mum and dad would go out shopping, and I'd lay in bed watching Going Live. The doorbell would go, so I'd have to get up, go downstairs and answer it, as it could be a mate. But SOMETIMES it was old Len the milkman, on his rounds to collect his dough. Naturally I never had any money to pay him, and would just have to say "sorry, they're out". Quite often I'd get a weary / dirty look from him, as if it was MY fault. I mean I just live there, I don't pay the bills you miserable old scrote.

I'd close the door and go back to bed.

 

[BensGrandad]

We stopped using a milkman in about 1983 when he kept telling us we owed for groceries which my wife never got from him and also he delivered the milk at aboyg 11.00am and it was on the doorstep until wife got home at 3.30 so in hot weather it went off.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Never have, in 'my' household.

My parents (in Brighton) still do.

 

[BensGrandad]

I must admit I havent even seen a milk float on the road for some years. Do they now deliver overnight?

 

[Bozza]

Bless.

 

[Southern Scouse]

I don't have a milkman but every week I get a fishmonger and a butcher knocking at my door trying to sell me their wares. It doesn't seem to matter how many times I tell them that they are too expensive they still keep coming !
I feel like setting the cat on them!

 

[GOM]

Yes. Buy most in plastic from the supermarket, but twice a week pay a premium to have milk delivered in a glass pint bottle. Cannot beat downing it all straight from the bottle. Luxury

 

[ManxSeagull]

We have one, but he only delivers three times a week not daily as per years ago


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[knocky1]

Bless.

That kitchen table reminds of Jessica Lange in the film "The Milkman Always Rings Twice".

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I live exactly 5 seconds from a shop, having a milkman would be a tad lazy

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[AmexRuislip]

Used to have milk delivered.
This all stopped, basically a number of reasons culminating in where deliveries dwindled to not so much demand, my wife and I starting work well before our milk was delivered (milk sat on doorstep, especially in summer), a spate of slow moving milk floats being re-ended by lorries on the A40 in the early hours and the local Dairy Express closing down.
Sainsbury is our milkman, which is a shame!

 

[Goldstone1976]

That kitchen table reminds of Jessica Lange in the film "The Milkman Always Rings Twice".

That's not [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] kitchen table. That's the panelling in his smoking room. *nods*