Incentive : Explain Yourself to Investors

Great America, the work paid off as we did eventually earn a free trip to Great America. For a few days, we acted like a family full of brothers and sisters. Our legs carried us from one ride to the next as we ran. We never stopped to look back. We ate chips with chili. The cups of lemonade pushed us with extra energy. The investment was shared since we all worked hard as a team that distributed candy. During the week, we began to share our money like cocktail waitresses at a restaurant pooling tips. Some of the foster kids grew distracted as they got older. New fears set in as we graduated from one day to the next in age. If a person was down on that sales quota that day, we shared our pizza at 7-Eleven and bought soda so that we could all drink together in the van. The van was on the edge of breaking down. The van from the beginning was an empty shell of metal. No cushions, no seats, nothing but a spare tire that rolled around when the driver made sharp turns. After nearly a year, the van began to leak gas. The gas fumes made children sick, especially in winter when the driver closed the windows to keep the cold weather out. Weekends we started selling candy as soon as the driver picked us up at 10:00 am. The girl that wanted to sing like Laura Branigan before becoming a heroin addict made a lot of money for the candy company. As a top sales person thanks to us kids, she started dating one of the top factory workers. This made her excited, so she would flash her breasts to the boys in the back of the van for a dollar by lifting her shirt as she drove down the freeway so that we could get an education they didn’t provide in school for thirteen year old children. I stopped working in winter. The foster children stopped joining us.