He was new to the district and wanted to check it out.
He knew this girl had a leaflet delivery round and thought it would be good to tag along. After two hours of covering four blocks, lots of streets and countless houses, he felt he knew the area fairly well. He had a thorough look around from up on the girl’s shoulder. He particularly liked the garden two streets over from where they started. The elderly couple on the front porch were both smoking, that meant tobacco, and he thought he could make out a chocolate wrapper. It would do nicely.
Being a saw-toothed grain beetle, the non-flying kind, he’d hitch another ride tomorrow and drop off.