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See also [[Pizza Boy Special Delivery]] for when it's just a random one-off fling with delivery guy rather than an ongoing affair.
Can result in
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* "If wifie shuns / your fond embrace / don't shoot the iceman / feel your face / [[Burma-Shave]]"
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* In [[Stephen King]]'s short story, ''Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game'' (collected in the anthology ''Skeleton Crew'') the wife of Rocky, the protagonist left him for the milkman. Even to Rocky, who is a laundry worker, and never reads anything aside from bubble gum comics, this situation has "sonorous classical overtones".
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* Played with as early as the first season of ''[[Happy Days]]'':
{{quote|'''Joanie''': Do you have a best friend, Daddy?
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* Implied in the [[Classic Disney Short]] "Father's Day Off". Goofy is taking his wife's place for the day, so when the milkman comes, he absent-mindedly gives Goof a kiss on the lips. The same thing happens with the grocery guy, and the laundry guy.
== Other Media ==
* It's not rare for tactless people to suggest that [[Her Child, but Not His|children who don't resemble either of their parents]] are results of "visits with the milkman".
* Then there's the schoolyard-esque taunt, "I'd be your father, but the mailman beat me up the stairs."
** [[Halo: Combat Evolved|... but the dog beat me over the fence.]]
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