On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:59:22 +0100 in uk.rec.motorcycles, Andy Bonwick
says:
>On 22 Jul 2005 08:07:13 -0700, darsy wrote:
>>
>>As I replied to Champ, I had a real (albeit for a very short period of
>>time) job, with NI and Tax and a payslip, but all given weekly in a
>>little brown envelope with cash in it.
>
>Would the envelope have been one of those horrible little ones where
>you pulled up one corner to check the cash before opening it properly?
>You must be as old as me...
Whilst searching through some boxes last year I found a few of mine
from the late 70s Id kept. The next job after that it was a weekly
giro cheque, some of my colleagues used to try and cash a day later
each week as a form of savings.
--
Ian