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A keen country lad applied for a salesman's
job at a Pat's General Store. In fact, it was the neatest store
in the world - you could get anything there. Pat, the boss, asked
him, "Have you ever been a salesman before?"
"Yes, I was a salesman in the country," said the lad.
The boss took an immediate liking to 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 5:30
came around. Pat duly closed up and asked the lad, "How
many sales did you make today?"
"One," said the young salesman.
"Only one?" blurted Pat. "Most of my staff make
20 or 30 sales a day. How much was the sale worth?"
"Three hundred thousand, three hundred and thirty four 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 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 Honda Civic
probably wouldn't be able to pull it, so I took him to the vehicle
department and sold him a new Ford Expedition. I asked him where
he was going to eat the fish that he caught, and then sold him
a beach house on the coast."
Pat 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 young salesman. "He
didn't come in to buy a fish hook. He came in to buy a box of
Tampons for his wife, and I said to him, "Your weekend's
shot, you might as well go fishin'."
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