Milk Man

We started getting milk delivered to our house yesterday morning. Home delivery of milk is a big thing in the towns around Boston. Not the cities or urban areas like we lived in before, but the suburban towns. I don?t remember it being something popular in NY but that might be because we didn?t have kids when we lived in NY and getting milk delivered was not something we would have looked into. But in our town there are at least three big milk delivery companies with obviously enough business to sustain all three. There are probably more but I have only seen trucks from three companies. There is one that has their headquarters nearby. I stopped by last month to get a price list and in front of the building ? a large old house really, it looks like a big house but around back I guess they have some of their trucks and stuff ? was a recycle box with a half gallon Hood milk container sticking out the top. It was pretty funny. Sort of like seeing an empty Miller beer bottle in the Budweiser bottling factor recyclable can. All of the companies delivery bread, cheese, yogurt, juice, bagels and other similar products with the milk so we are having other things delivered as well. The way it works is probably very similar to when it was really popular 50 or more years ago. We leave a container out at the top of the driveway or in the breezeway, we place our order through the phone, email, by leaving next week?s order in the container or by establishing a standing order, the guy drops off the stuff early in the morning, we leave a check payment, and that is that. I really want to buy a metal container like my neighbor has, but we have so many small coolers that it doesn?t make sense to shell out 30 bucks just because it makes me feel like I live in the 30s. I went out yesterday morning to meet the milk man. Ha, ?milk man?. So many jokes that have been made about the milkman. Our guy?s name is Dave and he is very nice. It was like 2 degrees out yesterday and he wasn?t wearing any kind of hat or cap which I thought was strange but maybe he has warm ears.