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It's Mary Smith. Her job is to wake people up by shooting dried peas

Just reading about this incredible job from the 1930s in East London 🤣 The woman named Mary Smith was a "knocker-upper" and her job was to shoot dried peas at people's windows to wake them up for work. She earned about sixpence a week. I saw a lot of comments from people saying a pea against a window would never wake them up. But I was thinking, we're all so used to so much noise now. The loudest thing they would have heard was probably a horse carriage outside. It makes sense that a pea would be enough to do the trick. People also went to sleep not long after dark because there really wasn’t anything to do past that. It just hit me that none of us get enough sleep anymore. We're all so wired all the time. #History #RetroVibes #OldJobs #KnockerUpper #SleepTalk #ModernLife #LondonLife #RealTalk #Health #Nostalgia