milkmen
Bottle-bearing dawn visitors
Milkmen is the plural of milkman, a person who delivers milk to homes, typically in the early morning hours.
This occupation was once common when fresh milk in glass bottles was delivered daily to doorsteps, but it has largely disappeared with the rise of refrigeration and supermarkets.
The milkman persists in jokes and folklore as a figure of suburban infidelity, the supposed father of children who don't resemble their official fathers.
Entrance's bottom ledge
- bottlesNarrow-necked liquid containers
- routePath from A to B
- early morningFirst hours of day
- cratesSturdy shipping containers
float · rounds · customers · porch · subscription · weekly · orders · carrier
Milk-based foods collectively
- jobPaid position of employment
- tradeExchange of commodities
- livelihoodMeans of earning income
- wagesPayment for work
uniform · schedule · employment · workers · profession · service · industry · career
Of earlier times
- vintageQuality from past eras
- postwarAfter hostilities end
- 1950sDecade after WWII
- AmericanaHeritage artifacts or music
tradition · memories · childhood · simpler times · retro · old-fashioned · quaint · historic
Humorous remarks or stories
- paternityMale parent status
- affairsMatters requiring attention
- housewivesWomen who manage households
- tropeRecurring narrative device
stereotype · humor · innuendo · folklore · cliche · comedic · sitcom · suspicious
doorstep
Entrance's bottom ledge
- bottlesNarrow-necked liquid containers
- routePath from A to B
- early morningFirst hours of day
crates · float · rounds · customers · porch · subscription · weekly · orders · carrier · handcart
dairy
Milk-based foods collectively
- jobPaid position of employment
- tradeExchange of commodities
- livelihoodMeans of earning income
wages · uniform · schedule · employment · workers · profession · service · industry · career · laborers
bygone
Of earlier times
Americana · tradition · memories · childhood · simpler times · retro · old-fashioned · quaint · historic · suburban
jokes
Humorous remarks or stories
- paternityMale parent status
- affairsMatters requiring attention
- housewivesWomen who manage households
trope · stereotype · humor · innuendo · folklore · cliche · comedic · sitcom · suspicious · resemblance
- dying industriesprint newspapers, landlines, payphones, cassette tapes, VCRs
- vanishing thingsblacksmiths, cobblers, lamplighters, switchboard operators, telegraphers
- milkmaid braidPlaited hair crowning head