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I was fifteen minutes from reporting to my first day of work as a minimum wage dishwasher early one evening in June Cheap Alex Tuch Shirt , 1979. It was my first summer living out of my mom and dad's house. Things had started well enough'my intention was to sell wholesale T-Shirt printing services, pumping out the jobs myself on a freelance basis.


The first week, I sold a gross of shirts to a local pub, making a gross of dollars. Considering that rent for my summer sublet was all of $60.00 per month, I felt flush! But I hit the wall after that. Despite hanging flyers all over Amherst and environs (including the enormous University of Massachusetts campus), the fact was that my client base (dorms Cheap Nate Schmidt Shirt , student clubs, and the like) had departed for the summer and no one was buying. Having spent most of my last $20.00 on a book that caught my eye (I'd convinced myself that this was practical through some alchemical equation), I was ready to throw in the towel, and signed on for a dishwasher job on campus.


UMass hosted an odd assortment of conventions, seminars and crackpot camps in an attempt to pay the bills over the slow summer season. I was to be washing dishes in the campus dining commons for a group of several hundred Transcendental Meditation practitioners from the west coast who were convening a seminar on levitation. I did mention it was the Seventies, right?


I was filled with despair at the bleak prospect of washing dishes. I'd done my time as a dishwasher at a fast food steak house in high school where I was required to wear a polyester cowboy outfit. I had no desire to return to the low rent glory of the dishwashing pit.


At fifteen minutes to the 7:00 pm diswashing shift Cheap Jonathan Marchessault Shirt , a bolt of lightning struck. Of an instant, a fully formed scam literally sprang out of absolutely nowhere and announced itself to me. The underlying message was clear: YOU ARE NOT TO REPORT TO THE DISHWASHING JOB!


I'd recalled that an acquaintance, Sue, who worked in the campus center building, had mentioned to me that she had a list of groups who were holding events in the concourse of the campus center that summer. Sue had actually produced a list of the events for me. She assured me, if I was to set up and sell T-Shirts at these events Cheap Brad Hunt Shirt , she would look the other way; not charge me for the space. It seemed risky and a bit scurrilous, and I'd forgotten about it until fourteen minutes to dishwashing.


It was a Thursday evening, and that very weekend, the New England Camera Club was hosting their annual convention in the campus center. I determined that I would grace the show with their official (bootleg) t-shirt. The first problem to conquer was lack of capital. I knew where I could score some blank shirts for a dollar a pop, which I could print and mark up to the princely sum of four bucks, but since I was down to $3.00 on hand Cheap William Karlsson Shirt , it didn't seem much of a plan. If I had a hundred bucks, I could buy a hundred shirts and turn it into four hundred over the course of the weekend, enough to finance a month of summer living!


Did I mention it was the Seventies? Very fortunate, as it turns out you could hitchhike anywhere in New England back then within the course of a few hours, a day tops.


I elected my mom as financier and was on the road by five minutes to seven with my thumb up. As my folks lived about 70 miles away, I figured I'd get there just before the summer night settled in. I got a ride out of Amherst towards the western burbs of Boston just about the time my dishwashing shift supervisor probably started wondering where the hell I was. Okay Cheap David Perron Shirt , so mom definitely raised an eyebrow at the plan, but recognized my desperation and fronted the bucks. By early Friday afternoon, I was back in Amherst at my drawing board putting together a cute little cartoon logo featuring a guy who had a camera for a head. Somehow I managed to rustle up the blank shirts and get them all printed by eleven that evening.