Two Foot Fred by Fred Gill

Author:Fred Gill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Howard Books

FOR MY FINAL year at Ball State, Chad and I moved into a house on Neely Avenue six houses down from campus. This house had a basement—a really wet basement—that had a bedroom that our third roommate, Jeremy Jaynes, lived in. Jeremy was a younger friend from Seymour.

I don’t see how Jeremy did it. At times, it was so damp down there that his socks were continually wet. And the smell. It couldn’t have been healthy. Chad got a Rottweiler puppy and in our spare time we’d all sit on the porch with a cold beer and watch the girls go by as they headed to class. Except for the wet basement, it was an awesome house.

The other interesting thing about this year was that Toby was on campus as a freshman, as was Josh, Chad’s brother. Josh was a great kid who recently lost a battle with leukemia. It was a blow to all of us who knew and loved him. I look forward to talking baseball with Josh again someday.

Unlike me, and extremely unlike Toby, my brother took his chances with the roommate lottery and it could not have worked out better. Kurt Anderson to this day is still Toby’s best friend. Plus, although Kurt has three brothers of his own, he is like a second brother to me. As Toby was a freshman studying human resources, I didn’t see him all that often, but it was great having him close. Mostly I saw him when he came to our house for a party or when he wanted one of my roommates or me to buy alcohol—although he rarely drank. We always obliged.

The capstone course requirement for Dr. K was that his students develop an extensive business plan. I didn’t have to present it until the spring but I wanted to get a jump start on it. Without a doubt, this was the most important thing I had done in my life so far, so I was very methodical. I didn’t want to leave anything out or have the smallest contingency unaccounted for. I haven’t always had that attention to detail, but I am glad I did then.

I started in our college of business’s resource center, as it had all of the plans from previous students, and I wanted to learn what they did right and wrong. Only the successful plans were archived here. I often checked out the plans so I could take them home, then cross-referenced them so I could have detailed information at my fingertips.

This attention to detail would also prove useful in the future. When my best friend, John Rich, appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice, I prepared for him a two-inch-thick binder of all the previous contestants, detailing their strengths and weaknesses and where they ended up in the competition. John won and later told me how much the binder helped. I had learned well during my many years as a Boy Scout. Always be prepared.

Because I ate, lived, and breathed my business plan during my senior year, I inadvertently neglected some of my other duties.

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