The ad was maybe two inches long by an inch wide, tucked in among the calls for livestock for sale printed in the Hazel Green, Wisconsin, weekly shopping circular. Published on Tuesdays, the paper mostly made for good cat litter liner, rarely read and often tossed.
But Greg Gard was at a crossroads. Just cut from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville baseball team, he was an athlete with time and energy on his hands, and a college sophomore with a wallet to fill. So he scrolled through the ads, figuring maybe he'd find a job bagging groceries or washing cars.