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HUMOR: Great Salesman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Fri Nov 6 13:50:50 1998
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 13:48:38 -0500
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From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
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>Subject: Great Salesman
>Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 03:00:50 -0600
>
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> Great Salesman
>
> A keen country lad applied for a salesman's job at a city
> department store. In fact it was the biggest store in the
> area--you could get anything there. The boss asked him,
> "Have you ever been a salesman before?" "Yes, I was a
> salesman in the country," said the lad. The boss liked the
> cut of him and said, "You can start tomorrow and I'll come
> and see you when we close up."
>
> The day was long and arduous for the young man, but finally
> 5 o'clock came around. The boss arrived and asked, "How many
> sales did you make today?" "One," said the young salesman.
> "Only one?" blurted the boss. "Most of my staff make 20 or
> 30 sales a day. How much was the sale worth?" "Thirty-eight
> thousand, three hundred and thirty-four dollars," said the
> young man. "How did you manage that?" asked the
> flabbergasted boss.
>
> "Well" said the salesman, "This man came in and I sold him a
> small fish hook, then a medium hook and finally a really
> large hook. Then I sold him a small fishing line, a medium
> one and a huge big one. "I asked him where he was going
> fishing and he said down the coast. I said he would probably
> need a boat, so I took him down to the boat department and
> sold him that twenty foot schooner with the twin engines.
> Then he said his Volkswagen probably wouldn't be able to
> pull it, so I took him to the car department and sold him a
> new SUV."
>
> The boss took two steps back and asked in astonishment, "You
> sold all that to a guy who came in for a fish hook?"
>
> "No," answered the salesman. "Actually, he came in to buy
> a box of tampons for his wife and I said to him, "Your
> weekend's shot, you may as well go fishing.""
>
> (Thanks to Terry Galan for passing that one around)
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