Tuesday, 5 April 2011

You might as well go fishing!



A keen country lad started work as a salesman at the world's biggest
department store.

His first day was long and arduous, but finally 5 o'clock came around. 

The boss duly confronted him 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 a 
new Range Rover."

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, "Since your weekend's fucked, you 
might as well go fishing."

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