On the road

Since Al didn’t have a vehicle I wound up spending roughly every 2nd weekend during the summer on the road with him all over this part of the country, covering the Fort Frances, Kenora, Red Lake, Ignace, Geraldton and Nipigon areas. I turned down several paying photography jobs in order get this project off the ground.
This was not part of the original agreement, my involvement was supposed to limited to being the money-guy. We split the cost of the gas 50/50, but nothing was offered for vehicle wear and tear (and we spent a lot time on gravel roads).
We moved a lot of product in the summer. I was surprised how well it sold and impressed by how much the customers loved the products.

It seemed like whenever Al talked to local distributors about handling the product he came back with something like  “.. they don’t know what they’re doing... they don’t know how to sell my stuff...”. I began to wonder what he was up to, these companies have been around for decades and I figured they must be doing something right.

Al was always going on about how important trust is and how his “previous business partner” (Don Harris of Sebastian Fine Foods) had left him with a pile of debts and good old honorable Al was making sure everyone would get paid. As time went on I began wondering if the “woe is me” story I was hearing had the names reversed and maybe it was Don Harris who might have been the victim.

He was also always yacking about how he liked to use other peoples money instead of risking his own money, be the middle-man as he put it. I’m the money guy in this situation and this is what he’s bragging about (should I be getting concerned yet) ??