To survive, you had to sell, steal or starve. My first day out solo, I sold one bottle of E-Z Clean. The day had potential from the start. It was unusually warm with a light misting rain. Gerard had taught me that the odds were 1 in 6 that every house that let you in, would buy.
Most people have a hard time turning away someone out in the rain.
I had borrowed a business tie from Buster, and a Members Only jacket from Skip. Gerard loaned me a Mississippi State ball cap with instructions that Ole Miss had beaten us the week before, but that we'd get them back next year. The first house didn't let me in. The second house asked who I was and promptly slammed the door in my face. The third, fourth, fifth and sixth houses wouldn't even open the door.