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.'
2006-07-28
07:35:00
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