I remember selling different things for like 50 cents to a dollar in elementary school. 

Two types of things that I can remember selling on the streets were bags of sugar.  But this was just just any kind of sugar.  It was laced with all kinds of kool-aid.  I guess you can call me the drug dealers at Burt or something.  I didnt sell much of it.  Mostly just ate it all by myself.

I also remember making guns out of construction paper and selling them to a few kids here and there.  They would be intertwined with rubber bands and would actually shoot stuff out.  I know for a fact I sold one of them for 2 dollars to bobby wright.  He pooped his pants in 5th grade and I had to sit next to him in the choir.  Good times, good times.

Does anyone ever remember giving prank phone calls?

I remember a few occasions where we would either call up random people or businesses and act like the guys from "The Jerky Boyz" album.

I used to have those tapes of the Jerky Boyz and thought they were great. I love the arabic guys voice among a bunch of other things.

We only pranked a few times and I cant for the life of me remember the exact circumstance that we put people through. It was pretty clean fun, nothing too bad was said.

I remember one incident where a buddy and I stood at the pay phone of Crary and made a prank phone call to Sam Berestine. He is a local lawyer who says to call 1800-CALL-SAM and is basically a hospital follower of people who he can sue to get money. Pretty much a scam artist most likely.

Well I scammed them when I talked about how I wanted to sue because of my hemeroids or something like that. I cant remember too many of the details.

Good times!

One time Todd Bauer and I pranked Sara Treder, who I liked back when I was in tenth grade.  It was quite a lame prank call.  Todd said "Would you like to buy a magazine?!" in this really strange voice.  All she said was "What?" and that was it.  We had recorded the prank on the computer though and we would play it over and over.  I think I even had it set up so that, when Windows 3.1 booted up, it played the wav file of the prank.  We were such dorks.  I wish I still had the wav file.  I wouldn't be able to post it though - the memory crawler needs to add audio media capability ;)

For my last Spring Break ever (Senior Year at Oakland University) I was going to go to Florida for Spring Break, but my friend cancelled on me. So as a second effort to have a good time on my break I decided to buy tickets through a school trip to NYC! Tickets were super cheap (170 bucks for 4 days). The only person I knew was Andy Baker, but after those 4 days were over I made a ton
more friends and had the greatest time I have had in such a long time!!

Here are the things I remember us doing....

When we first got there we immediately went to times Square where Andy lifted me up on his shoulders and we took pics and hung out.

I felt so gross from the long bus ride, but we couldnt yet check into the hotel.

I dont remember specifics about what we did on the first day after that, maybe we went to the comedy night that night with Adrian Bass and others, I am not sure.

In the morning for sure I know we made our way to the Metropolitan museum. It was one of the largest . . . Read More..

The other day Susan and I had to meet with the Deacon where we are getting married and afterward we went to the Coffee Beanery in Plymouth.

There we met a man, Dong Jun, who was the owner of the establishment. He made Susan a nice coffee and me a really good drink as well.

When he was helping the other people before us, both of us knew that this guy was pretty much the nicest, most genuine and sincere person we have met in a while.

He just had this aura to him. This vibe. He had the biggest smile on his face as well.

After he gave us our drinks, we sat down, but I was itching to randomly go up to him and strike up a conversation.

Dong Jun, is an old Korean guy maybe in his late 50's and we mostly had small talk about lots of things, but it was just so pleasant. He was very wise.

I cant wait to visit him again with Susan. We both new instantaneously that this man has greatness flowing in his blood. It was really weird.