I really don't know if it's everywhere, or just where I live, but I've been running into pyramid schemes left and right lately. I'm at the game store, and some random person just starts talking about gaming to me. He asks me if I'm into video games, and I tell him yes. I mean, why the hell else would I be at a GameStop, right? So he's talking to me about computers, electronics, all that fancy stuff and how if I were to work for him, I'd be making a fortune. Now this dude had "scumbag" written all over his smiling face. He gives me his card, and I give him my number and he goes away. Later on the day he calls my cell and if I can do lunch with him. Of course I refuse, so he continues talking about his company and how I can make a fortune selling his merchandise. He talks about the usual I sell so many, he takes the cut, and in order for me to profit, I must convince several others to join in and work for me, and I make my cut. Heh. I gladly refuse his offer, stating I enjoy making my money legitimately.

Then I run into a high school friend a few weeks later. I knew him from a few classes we had together and he lives right down the road. Then he invites me over his house one day, just out of the blue. I see this guy almost every day. I see him at K Mart pushing carts for a living. So I'm at his house and he's talking about making thousands, maybe millions. First he's starting to scare me, because he sounds like he just joined the mob or planning to rob a bank or something. Then his aunt comes and looks me dead in the eye, and asks, "How would YOU like to be making a lot of money?" So I agree. She shows me this half hour video of all these fancy condos, millionaires, corny rich people music, and the most beautiful cars I only saw on TV. After the video, she's basically stating that one day, that could be me. But first, I have to start small, and work my way up to the Double Diamond status...yeah, I don't get that title either. So she's showing me all these products that this company sells, mostly energy drinks and what not. Then I get the usual speech on how/if I can get other people to work for me, and the more people I get to join, the more money I will make. You know, my profits will go to the higher ups, and those below me I take their profits, until I get so much that I begin to profit, minus the cut people above me take.

She starts me off small, handing me this purple energy drink can, and tells me later on the week to stop by again and she'll work out the details. Basically, this energy drink she gave to me is what I'm supposed to sell later on, and the more I sell the more money I make. Well, I go home later on, and I figure, what the hell, if I'm gonna sell this crap, I might as well try it also. So I'm sipping this thing, and reading the ingredients...and guess what? The key ingredient in this thing is ephedra. This thing freaks the hell out of me, because not only does this ingredient basically kill people, it's freakin' illegal. I tell myself, if I'm seriously going to sell this, I might as well work for the Tobacco company, because at least I won't be breaking the law. So long story short, I gave this man the big F you, and told him to get a life. Heh. Hell of a way to end a friendship, if you ask me...