How Answering a Newspaper Ad May Change Your Life

SPRING, AND CHANGE IS IN THE AIR
With money we received from the sale of our honeymoon farm near Gooding, Idaho, and also from the sale of some investments, Tilda and I found ourselves loaded with a lot of idle cash. We decided to look for various ways to put our money back to work for us.
It was late spring, the season when insects and snakes come out after their long winter naps. And with the melting of the snow, bands of high-pressure con men also crawl out of their holes to hit the back roads and small towns of America with illegal schemes to load their pockets with cash.
We contacted a number of people, and just to see what would happen, we foolishly mailed a letter in response to a vague advertisement that appeared in the Twin Falls newspaper. The ad promised a good investment opportunity. Ten minutes later, we forgot all about it, and went on to other things.
We didn't realize it then, but answering that ad was like flipping the detonator switch on a hydrogen bomb sitting right in the middle of our lives. -- Harold W. "Indiana" Hannebaum