The Pineapple Slide

"I'm sorry Bryan, but what are we going to do with all of this pineapple juice?" asked my brother, after receiving one year supply of the product just the other day. It was located near our beat down tiki bar. It's been quite a fixer upper since we purchased this waterpark awhile back.

"Beats me, Ryan, I'm still figuring that one out myself after getting it," I said while wiping the bar counter with a clean rag and antibacterial spray.

"Yeah, well, we gonna come up with something cause we aren't getting a lot of customers as it is. Or else, all of that pineapple juice is going down the drain."

"Tell me about it bro," I said sarcastically. Of course he and I both know that our small business in owning a waterpark in the Dells was going to be a hard task to follow. Especially with competing with the likes of Noah's Ark and Mt. Olympus, just to name a few.

"Let's see," Ryan starts thinking right off the bat as he continues to hold his lifebuoy. He's been a lifeguard since we were 15 years old. Meanwhile I have into the mixology biz 7 years ago. Now at the age of 25, we were young entrepreneurs looking for a place to mark our legacy as the Dynamic Duo, all right here at the World's Largest Waterpark Capital!

I take a break from the slow day of bartending and lifted myself on our hammock, which was close by. Our small waterpark also had a yellow slide as tall as 20 feet, and at the bottom of it was a good distant size pool that has a depth of 12 feet.

We also have a watchtower and a couple of accommodations, which included two restrooms, a few lockers in such, along with two bubblers in between. We even had a small purple kiddie pool hanging off to the side of the building.

Looking around this place, we will feel like humble about it. It just doesn't help that our tiki bar is run on the mill kind of state. Every time, I fix one problem, there always happen to be a next. And guess who always has to fix it? You guess it!

Ryan hasn't been known to get his hands all dirty. I mean sure, he's saved lives on countless of times but he was pretty much what is he's good at. So yeah, he were kind of in an interesting predicament. What were a pair of mid-20's going to do with all of this unlimited supply of pineapple juice without even having one single customer dropping by? We were in quite a pickle or dare I say quite a pineapple (laugh out loud).

I continue laying on our shared hammock thinking of what to do as my twin asked: "You got any ideas cause I can't think of any?'

"Yea RyRy, I'm trying to come up with something," I replied calmly. "How about a pineapple juice drive?"

"What founder is going to fundraise for a shabby waterpark? We still need to fix up and restore the tiki bar. Plus, where would the additional supply of pineapple juice go, especially considering we have limited enough of space as it is."

"Point taken. How about a pineapple lemonade stand? All purchases can go to our tiki bar."

"I mean yes, it could but we will have to sell a lot to get what we need. No one is going to pay 8 dollars a cup for such a refreshment alone. On top of that, we will need as much lemons as it is with the pineapple juice we carry. Don't forget we need to continue to rent this place out or else we will be out of business."

"You make good solid points there." I looked at our yellow slide and said out loud: "How about a Pineapple Slide?"

"A what slide?"

"How about instead of using water, we use pineapple juice? I mean think about it. A waterpark which uses another liquid than water? We'll be a massive hit!"

"I don't know Bryan, that could be a big risk, especially considering if people are allergic to pineapple."

"There's only a small percentage that do. Plus, we will only use a little bit that way it will smell and taste like a pineapple."

"I mean the more you say it, the more I'm thinking about it too."

"Right! Just imagine it! We will be able to keep our leg up here as long as we advise that we use pineapple juice as our main selling point. We can even come up with a drink and dance."

"That does sound all profitable."

"Exactly RyRy!" I even got up from the hammock and extended my hand to my brother: "Well are you in?"

"You know it," he responded while returning the favor.

And just like that, we were off to the races, all by making our idea plus concept into reality. We first tested out on ourselves after pouring a bit of pineapple juice in a small kiddie pool. After a half hour, we turned out fine and proceeded to pour some of it into our pool water. We need took the time to use graffiti to paint some pineapples on our yellow slide.

Then we advised it around town about our newest attraction! Soon, word spread like wildfire and our little waterpark became packed! So packed that even the line for the Pineapple Slide was out of the establishment alongside of the nearby street!

We made everyone a pineapple slide drink (either with or without alcohol of course). It was like a Margarita but with pineapple juice instead and a part of the pineapple shell on the edge to look like a slide. There was of course some pineapples slices inside of the drink too.

The two of us even came up with a little dance for the name's sake. It was a simple yet funny dance routine. All you had to do was bend your knees a bit outward like a pineapple meanwhile spreading your right hand over your noggin while shaking it. Next you take your other hand and slide to the left with your legs still bent outwards. Then you switch hands doing the same but with the right side. The kids absolutely loved it and us adults enjoyed it as well as, partaking in the silly antics.

Eventually we became the hottest spot in the Dells that we were even interviewed by several well known news programs. We were even thinking about franchising our brand nationwide and possibly the entire world. Things were quite literally looking up for Ryan and I.

Unfortunately, all things must come to an end. Literally everyone, including us, was getting rashes from the pineapple juice. It gotten so bad that a lot of people wanted to sue us and call us frauds, even though they knew what they were getting into in the first place. We even got cited and eventually had to file for bankruptcy.

Never had I imagine we will be at this state as we look aimlessly for any job considering our licenses as a lifeguard and bartender were suspended. Ryan and I were even homeless, begging for shelter and food from days on end. It was so terrible that I could cry...

Apparently the sun was out this causing me to start balling my eyes right there and then.

"You got any ideas cause I can't think of any?" asked Ryan to me as I came back to my senses.

Everything that happened was instantly gone. Vanished without a trace. It was all a dream thank goodness!

"Are you okay, By?"

"Yes RyRy," I said feeling relieved. "I was just daydreaming."

"As you always do."

"Hey now, I'm not the only one fam."

"So any ideas when dozing off?"

I heard commotion outside of our waterpark. "Come on, Nigel," says an enthusiastic hillbilly. "Let's check this place out."

"I don't know Frank," called back a skeptical British man. "This place seems sketchy to me."

I turn my head to my twin brother: "I'll tell you all earlier. Right now, we got our first customers. We just need to give thema refreshing Pineapple Slide drink, and show them little improv dance of that same name."