Facts & Fictitious Business

The Chicago Bears lost a nail-biter to the Oakland Raiders, but several of us at Sunshine Company in OB weren't ready to call it a day.  I ended up helping Kate carry a beer-pong table down Saratoga Avenue to her apartment next to the beach.  We were on a roll & I ended up spending the night at her place.

The next morning, she dropped me off at my apartment on West Pt. Loma Blvd.  She was headed to work at a plant nursery in Miramar & I was hopping my beach cruiser to ride downtown to the County Building to file Mad Munch as a Fictitious Business Name.  It was step one in making my grilled cheese business into a reality.  

For $30, I filled out Form 231, they gave me a receipt & a list of eligible newspapers to publish a statement that would make this fictitious name a fact.  I stuffed the papers in my backpack, & rode on home to take a nap before my night shift at the Inn began later.  At work, I selected the cheapest newspaper in which to publish a statement saying that "Mad Munch," was indeed my business.  (If you look in the classified section of most newspapers you'll find a plethora of Fictitious Business Statements.

Kate didn't make it into work that day.  She turned around after she dropped me off, called into work & went back home.  I only know because she texted me about it later after we exchanged numbers & I gave her shit about it.  

She also told me days later that she would do "anything" to help me start my grilled cheese business.  I didn't believe her, but she wasn't joking.  I can also say that ever since we started doing Mad Munch together (Spring 2013) she has never once called out of work.