Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Ah Philadelphia how I love thee...

I saw the greatest entrepreneur on my way to class today. I was driving down Broad Street which is a nightmare of 3 lanes of traffic and horrible timed lights. In the “turn lane” (that yellow area in the middle of the street designated for turning) and man was walking with two objects in his hands. Upon closer inspection I noticed they were PIES! He was selling pies in the middle of N. Broad Street in 75 degree weather. He was accompanied by a blue cooler, which I can only assume had more of the pies he had in his hands. The only criticism I have for this man is he began his pie-selling endeavor a bit too early. The untimed lights of Broad Street had not generated enough traffic for people to be held up at his stop light, enabling them to purchase his (what I assume to be) tasty pies.

On a side note I got to class extraordinarily early and my professor presupposes that the pies he was selling were hot. Not hot, as in he had pre-heated them for us, hot as in he had stolen them from a nearby whole-seller.

Let’s hear it for entrepreneurship!

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