MA Trading 2 (see previous)
Myself and Adam revamped the MA Trading name and came up with the idea of forming a hamper company.
We would take orders for hampers, collect the weekly payments, then in December go on an almighty big-shop.

We made an appointment with the manager of a local bank to see about a loan so we could purchase a van of sorts. He rolled his eyes at us in an alarming way, suggested we try borrowing cash off relatives and essentially told us to fuck off.

We printed out some rather piss-poor looking catalogues which were essentially lists of items in the proposed hampers and no pictures at all, all photocopied on 4 pages of rather cheap paper each.

We walked around a local estate and posted maybe 80 of the damn things. A week later, we went round and collected maybe 30 of them, with not one order.

We stuffed them in someone's wheelie-bin and went to the pub instead.

We think back to those days of blind optimism and it makes us literally bend double with cringeing.
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