It all begins with Ice Cream day in elementary school. Ice cream day was Friday and I would often forget to ask for an extra quarter for the occassion. What to do! I did not want to sit and watch everyone else eat ice cream on the playground. I finish my classwork and doodle awhile waiting for the dreaded ice cream time to come. A boy named Jonathan sitting beside me asks "Wow, are those Transformers?" "Yes." I reply. He then asked if I could draw him Ravage. I drew him Ravage. Then he asks for another. "I'll draw it for five cents." I said "o.k." he said. I was amazed. I figured he say forget it. So I agreed to draw another. Then a scheme popped into my head. "I'll draw all you want for five cents a piece. I'll have to do them at home but I will draw them." He liked my drawings and decided to prepay for a whole bunch of them at five cents a piece. I had gotten my ice cream money! So the time came to get ice cream and I was happy.

As for the drawings, I did go home and finish them up for him. Each week I would draw Transformers for him. Some of the other class even got in on it. I made around 30-50 cents a week. Sometimes enough for two ice creams, although we were limited to one. This went on for some time. I can't remember how exactly how long. My teacher finally told me school was not my personal art store. It was fun while it lasted and I gotten what I wanted at the time. Ice Cream!

Hooray for Transformers! I'll never forget how the Transformers helped me get my ice cream money. I found a reminder of this just the other day as I found one of my old drawings. I drew this pic of Grimlock when I was eight years old.