Ellen Mullin sent me this, so she gets the credit and the blame –
A young kid from Oklahoma moves to California 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 home in Oklahoma."
Well the boss liked the kid, so he gave him the job. "You start tomorrow. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did."
His first day on the job was a learning experience, but he got through it. And after the store was locked up, the boss came down. "How many sales did you make today?" The kid says "One."
The boss says, "Just one? Our sales people average 25 sales a day. You’re going to have to improve considerably or look for another job! How much was the sale for?"
The kid says "$112,237.64."
The boss says "112,237.64!! What the hell did you sell?"
The kid says "First I sold him a small fish hook, then I sold him a medium fish hook, then I sold him a large fish hook. The I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down to the lake. So I told him he was going to need a boat, and we went down to the boat department and I sold him a new bass boat. 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 a new Ford pick-up. I asked him how long he was going to be out at the lake and after he said 5 or 6 days I took him down to the RV department and sold him a slide-in camper for the truck."
The boss said "A guy came in here to buy a fishing hook and you sold him a boat, a truck, and a camper?"
The kid says "No he came in here to buy a box of tampons for his wife and I said, "Well, your weekend’s shot, you might as well go fishing."
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