E & F Enterrprises

The nostalgia bug has hit me and I'm going to go even further back than high school in this post. We're talking 7th grade.

In 7th grade, my best friend was Frankie Fernandez. We were both sons of businessmen and fancied ourselves to be born entrepreneurs. We would dream up schemes to make money. Sometimes, we even acted on our schemes.

One of these schemes was a candy bar business based on a pyramid principle. We had our parents buy us boxes of Hershey's Big Block candy bars for wholesale prices at Price Club (this was before it became Costco and everyone was a member!) and organized students to sell the candy bars for us in two seperate junior high schools. The business worked in principle- we sold a ton of candy bars with very little work. Every once in a while we lost a candy bar to a teacher confiscation or to a dishonest saleman, but the candy bar sales were consistently turning a profit.

The only problem is that we would spend our profits at the 7-11 for slurpees and comic books. We would make, say, twenty dollars in a day and would spend all of it without any thought as to how we'd be able to buy more candy bars to sell.

But, the important thing is that we had a ton of fun. To our young minds, we were brilliant businessmen and we enjoyed thinking of ourselves this way. It didn't really matter if we were able to sustain a profit.

Years later, Frankie and I remain friends. Somehow neither of us became businessmen...