The Country Lure
A keen country lad applied for a salesman's
job at a city department store. In fact it was the biggest store
in the world - 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 duly fronted up 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?"
"Three hundred thousand 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 the new
Deluxe Cruiser."
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 "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.'"
