Sour Power! Do you guys remember this stuff?!?!? Sugar, salt, and the right amount of flavored Kool Aid mix. Fill in Ziploc Bag and dip Sour Power until your money runs dry! We sold this shit for 5th grade Business Fair! I think we made $75!!! I'm going to go make some now!!
Mmmmm, that's good Sour Power. I definitely got gloriously sick many a time as a 12 yr old entrepreneur gorging myself on this stuff. Surprising they even let us sell it. Sour Power is not sanitary; everything you touch gets a saliva-salty-sugary-Kool aid touchup.
In 6th grade one day Calbano and I went to a discount store that no longer exists on Buttercup Creek Blvd. We bought $12 worth of gumball packs, each containing 5 gumballs the size you get out of a machine for a quarter. Each pack was 20 cents. 60 packs. The cashier lady asked us what we planned on doing with so much gum.
"We're going to sell it and make a profit!"
"You know that is illegal right?"
"No, how can that be illegal?"
The lady proceeded to expound on economic principles that we ultimately rejected. Calbano had an oversized army jacket equipped with a plethora of pockets. We sold every last one of those packs for $1 each. We had repeat customers. The bottom of his jacket hovered 4 inches over his Airwalks. You could just barely make out the Jncos. We walked away from that enterprise with $60, $30 each. It was a good week.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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