Hello all sit down on the floor and I'll tell you a story you never heard before
I come from a family of 5, my mother, stepfather and 2 brothers. We were a low income family my stepfather was a die setter/factory worker and we eat pork n beans and mac n cheese all week long except for friday and then the old man got a pork steak n beans and we got hotdogs n beans.
Anyways in 1962 when I was 12 I got to see one of my uncles play drums on tv with his band the Fireballs a one hit wonder band they did Bottle of Wine and after seeing that I wanted a set of drums. So I asked my mom and she said I'll get you a trumpet if you want to play an instrument, so I asked the old man and he said if you buy the drums then ok.
I rode my homemade stingray to the music store and saw a full set of drums cost about $900.00, ok where the heck do I get 900. Well I had been hanging out at a local gas station because I really like cars and the night guy would give me a quarter for cleaning each of the two johns and since he was much older than me and knew about how to get money I asked him and he said why don't you go to all the other 4 gas stations in town and ask to clean thier johns for a dollar each and in a couple of months you should have enought for your drums and infact if you go to the next town over and can clean the johns in the gas stations there also you will get the money faster. So thats what I did and in 2 months I had $1600.00 and bought my drums. Also since it was very cool to have money I kept cleaning the johns and even brought my best friend into the business and we got another of our friends in with us and expanded into all 5 surrounding towns. It was cool we all bought brand new Stingrays and put removable baskets on them to carry our cleaning supplies.
Everything was going great but as I approched age 16 I wondered about taxes and whatnot. But I had another uncle that was a lawyer and asked him about it and he said when the time comes he would take care of it after I and my friends got our social security cards. And he also said I really should contract all my accounts and he set me up with contracts and I had the gas station owners sign them locking each into 1 year contracts and all was good. Then at age 16 I bought two chevy vans and had 3 friends working for me and we branched out into more towns in our area. It was a great setup 2 to a van meant each station we went to 1 guy for each john and bam done and on to the next station. I also raised prices to cover gas and expenses.
At age 18 trouble hit I was drafted good Morning Viet Nam, but thats another story. But anyways something good did happen my uncle contacted me and said Lien Chemical Company wanted to buy my business, Lien is the one that puts the deodorisers in public johns that they service and they wanted to take over the market by cleaning johns also but I had 34 towns/suburbs all locked up under contracts. But they offered $875,000 to buy me out. So on my next leave I did the deal with my uncle as my lawyer to make sure all was correct. I took $20,000 and put it in a bank account for when I got out of the service and the rest of the money I put in an account for my uncle to setup money market accounts and invest in stocks, bonds and futures.
Now for the good part while I was in the service I became a millionaire now all I had to do was live thru it and get back home, needless to say I made it back and bought my dream car a souped up 55 Chevy Belair and went to college and kept investing in the markets and haven't worked since the service. Other than some programing contracts here and there, since gaming is my passion you can't quite call it working.
BTW the only reason I told this here is because some wonder how I can blow money like thier is no tomarrow and some say I am a fool.
As you can see what a total fool I was as to clean dirty johns LMFAO .!. Ca Ching $$$
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Originally Posted by Liquidacid
