Thursday, September 11, 2008

Who is that unknown caller?

About 8 times a day for the past 3 weeks I get a call from the infamous "unknown caller". I once tried to save his number in my phone in an attempt to make something cooler come up when he would call. You know, make my phone say something like, "Don't answer its a trick" when it would come up. Curiosity still hasn't got the best of me, and needless to say, I still don't know who this unknown caller is. Maybe curiosity will keep you coming back to this blog again and again.

I now am in the middle of one of the biggest projects of my life. It seemed like such a good idea, buy and sell natural gas trucks. It only cost people in Utah 85 cents a gallon and people on Oklahoma like $1.02, and in a time when gas hit well over 4 dollars a gallon, people were ready to kill for one of these vehicles. So I quit everything I was doing this summer and headed off on a journey to find or make some of these vehicles and sell them for a mad profit. The first opportunity came after I spent about 2 weeks sleeping in my best friends brothers unfinished basement on an air mattress. We were waiting for a kit to come in the mail so we could convert a car to run on natural gas. But the kit never came but an auction came up just down the road in Columbia South Carolina. We pushed the limit of what we could come up with for the auction, and we took it all to the auction. All our money combined was just at 10K. After a day at the auction, sure enough we had the truck. It only cost us every cent we had. It was so bad, that I went to a wendy's on the way home, and had no cash, and my card was denied, I left without my food. That is how broke I was. But I drove it back and sold it for almost 14K. Not a bad profit, and evidence that it was possible to make a few bucks in all of this.....