Go fish
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Loading ...A country lad applied for a salesman job at a city department store. In fact, it was the largest store in the world. The boss asked, “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 by when we close to see how you’re doing.”
The day was long and arduous for the lad, but finally 5 o’clock came. The boss arrived and asked, “How many sales did you make today?”
“One,” said the young man.
“Only one?” blurted the boss, “Most of my staff make 20-30 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 lad, “this man came in and I sold him a small fishing hook, and then a medium fishing hook, and finally a really large fishing hook. Then, I sold him a fine fishing line, a medium one and then a huge big fishing line. I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast. Then I said he’d probably need a boat, so I took him over to the boat dept. and sold him that 20 foot schooner with the twin engines. Then he said he wouldn’t be able to pull it, so I took him to the car dept. and sold him the deluxe cruiser.”
The boss took 2 steps back and asked, “You sold all that to a guy who came in for a fishing hook?”
“No, he came in to buy a box of tampons for his wife and I said, ‘Your weekend’s shot, you might as well go fishing!’”