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Salad Days Skateboard Co. Part 3: Platipussed Out (1) (page 2) He suggested to that I go to Broprints in Santa Cruz to make my screens, but when I contacted them about it they ended up telling me that they didn't do that kind of stuff and that I should contact Zarosh. I explained to them that it was Zarosh who had sent me to them in the first place. So after that awkward conversation that didn't really need to happen, I went back to Zarosh. I really wanted to work with him and I really wanted to get Salad Days rolling. When I arrived at Zarosh's he started acting a little weird and then out of nowhere he tells me, "You know? I really don't feel comfortable with you coming around here. I don't like you looking around because you're the competition." So pretty much after he said that, I just looked at him, asked him if he was serious, which he was, laughed at him, left and pretty much have never been back there. What he had just said had boggled my mind. I personally myself, never looked at myself as a competitor to him, or just about any of these companies. He wasn't wrong to call me that, but at the same time I was more in a mentality of me being a collaborator, as opposed to competitor. I was about to give him orders to do all of my stuff, t-shirts, skateboards, stickers, whatever you could think of. I wanted to say with pride that Zarosh & I was working on something big & he came at me like a fucking jock. He gurned me & he still does to this day. Every time I see him he always has this screw face on, even though we have been in multiple videos together, are on the same skate shop team, know the same people and he sees me as a competitor & not as a teammate? I ended up deciding to just continue with the spray paint and stencil method after that. Which at the time was more important to me, because I wanted my boards available & it also gave me the time to handle other issues; like learning how to run a business, putting the foot work in it, plus at the same time working a full-time job. It's the ultimate reason why I had to learn screen printing and what it all entails; becoming exactly what he didn't want me to be; a competitor! It's why it has taken me so long, because I've had to literally build it all from the seed to the shoot. It's why somebody else got his money in the process, because I asked to do a job, not talk. Now is the time for talking, it's called a blog. If people don't understand what customer service is, or what I am saying to them when I say, "I'm trying to give you money;" I can't call it. I got to move on & I guess that's why it's called handling your business. I'm going to remind you again, I back all of these businesses. I've supported them in the past & do support them in the future, but I started Salad Days for a reason. It had to be done. Everyone had their chances & they blew it. You can't say you can do better and then sit there and do nothing. So, I'm doing something & it's still better than nil to nothing. (1) (page 2) (Next Post)