They can't avoid the thousands of street children who sell gum or beg for handouts at car windows they aren't even tall enough to see into.
"We are going to find ways to sell gum and candy," he said.
In the past year, the March of Dimes says it has stopped selling candy and gum.
He started selling gum, and transitioned to real estate shortly after.
We walked over to the boulevard and Baldy and I went into a store which sold chewing gum.
Villagers along their route, rather than cowering behind doors, watched in amusement and hoped to sell some bottled water or gum.
Selling gum now carries a fine of up to $2,000 and smuggling, up to $10,000 and a year in prison.
A 10-year-old girl selling gum inside a McDonald's restaurant was forced into the refrigerator by the manager and an employee.
She helped the family by selling chewing gum.
Even in the poorest Third World countries, children sold gum: here there was none to sell.