As a kid growing up, my Dad lived in the outskirts of Pittsburgh in a relatively old, run-down neighborhood. Without the availability of most luxuries and quality forms of entertainment, he and his friends were forced to devise their own creative schemes to have fun. One of his closest friends, Eddie Blackson, was always extremely interested in winning prizes by way of radio call-in competitions, mail-in contests, and most commonly, sending in cereal box-tops.
When Eddie was 10 years old, he began collecting a vast quantity of Quisp cereal box-tops. This assiduous effort to gather this many box-tops was all geared towards receiving the coveted indestructible working man's hard hat. After weeks and weeks of buying abnormally large numbers of Quisp boxes and satisfyingly ripping each individual box-top, he had finally accumulated enough tops to send in for his reward. A few weeks later, Eddie opened a box labeled Quisp Cereal Company and sure enough, the construction helmet with the......
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