This is just a thread to post your stories about people in your lives and the stupid things they've done.
My dad had this friend named Jack. The guy seemed a little nuts. This guy nailed strips of stainless steel to the bottom of his winter boots because the soles were split down the middle. Must've been slippery.
Anyway, Jack had this great idea to start a roadside business selling BC Fruit. He went out and bought an old hydro truck and began making modifications to it. He had someone install a cooler unit in the front of the box. He also got me and my dad to do work on this thing.
He built a section right at the front of the box to put a bed so he could sleep in it. He built many shelves inside the vehicle to hold boxes of fruit. He cut one of the doors to the box and put hinges on it so he could lift the little door and pull out boxes of fruit which were linked together with small metal brackets. He had my dad take the passenger seat, weld a rod to the bottom of it, and put a metal bracket on the back so he could hook the chair onto it so he could sit and sell fruit. He had me install a stereo (8-track player!!!) and wire up speakers to the bottom of the box so he could have music playing while he sold fruit. He also brought over some scratchy record for me to record onto 8-tracks. However, he didn't want the whole album, he had selected songs in a particular order.
Jack was hesitating painting the box white since it reminded people of hospitals, but he eventually did paint it white, and the cab green, the color of freshness! He also went to a printer and had signs made up saying "Peaches", "Apples", "Oranges", "Bananas", etc. He also had two small signs made up, one with a "B" and one with a "C". He had a difficult time deciding whether the "B" and the "C" looked good close together or far apart. I had to help him make the decision.
Finally, after months and months of hard work, Jack took the newly converted hydro truck out to the roadside to sell BC fruit.
A week later he came back, opened the back of the truck, and started tearing out everything that he had built. I went outside to see what the hell was going on. He told me "Well, I sorta had a mild heart attack. Almost rolled the truck!", and then went back to tearing everything out of the truck.
I'm guessing he didn't make any money.
