A young guy from Minnesota moved to Florida and goes to a big
> >”everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.
> > The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?” The kid says,
> >”Yeah. I was a salesman back in Minnesota.” Well, the boss liked the
> >looks of the kid, so he gave him a job and said “You start tomorrow,
> >and I’ll come down after we close and see how you did.” Ok?
> > His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it, and after
> >the store was locked up, the boss came down.”How many customers
> >bought something from you on your first day?The kid says, “One”. The
> >boss says, “Just One?” You know our sales people average on a slow
> >day
>
> >20 to 30 customers, but you had “JUST ONE”. And how much was your
> >”JUST ONE for?”The kid says, “$101,237.65”.The boss said what?…
> “$101,237.65?
> > Well, what the heck did you sell?” The kid says, “First, I sold him
> > a
>
> >small fishhook. Then I sold him a medium fishhook. Then I sold him a
> >larger fishhook. Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him
> >where he was going fishing, and he said down the coast, so I told him
> >he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department
> >and I sold him a twin engine “Chris Craft”.Then he said he didn’t
> >think his “Honda Civic” would pull it, so I took him down to the
> >automotive department and sold him that “4X4 Expedition.”The boss
> >said, “A man came in here to buy a fishing hook and you sold him a
> “BOAT and a TRUCK?””
> > No ” the kid said, “The man came in to buy Tampons for his wife, And
> > I said, “Dude, your weekend’s shot, you should go fishing”.
