New Business Opportunity

I often drive long distances to visit with clients or to meet on jobsites where our firm has installations in some degree of completion. Perhaps my favorite places to work are the coalfields of Eastern Kentucky. I love Hazard,Harlan, Whitesburg , and Hyden.The people in this region are without a doubt the most honest , hardworking ,and friendly that you will ever meet.A handshake is all that is necessary to seal a$100,000 contract. They give you their word and you'd better reciprocate.I've always been fascinated that there are still pockets of people hidden away in little churches up deep hollers that believe in showing one's faith by handling serpents. I mean honest timber and diamond back rattlesnakes and copperheads. A Biblical passage tells them that they can take up serpents and drink poisonous liquids without harm. Their faith will carry them through it.Every year practitioners of the art are bitten and a few die. The thing that most have in common is their reluctance to seek medical help. You can see people on the streets of Eastern Kentucky , West Virginia ,and Tennessee who are missing fingers which is what happens to a venemous bite without medical attention(if the victim survives).To this direction I had a brainstorm one day as I was driving through Pike County. I could corner the market on the serpent commodities and sell reptiles to the churches! Further thoughts produced a delivery van much like the dog truck in Dumb and Dumber, but with a snake motif. I would call the business"Send A Serpent", and deliver 7 days a week. The trucks would say"Radio Dispatched" and would have masculine drivers like the Crocodile Hunter who would wear khaki shorts and work boots and say things like,"Would you just sign here. Boy, these Diamondbacks are little beauties!Crikey, watch ' em Mate they're fast". They could be packed in round tubes and opened only when necessary. A major selling point is that they could have snakes year round, as native reptiles hibernate during the cold winter months. I'd keep an inventory on hand year round so they wouldn't have to look under rocks for the ill-natured creatures. If they wanted something really special I might even branch out and try to find some exotic species like a 10 foot spitting cobra. Now wouldn't that be interesting aloose in a packed congregation ! Crikey! This is played with Steve Earl's COPPERHEAD ROAD blaring in the background.You wouldn't expect Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring would you? Leave a message if you are interested in Franchise details.