The manager asks:
- Do you have any experience as a seller?
The young man readily answers:
- Of course! Where I came from, I worked as a salesman!
The manager obviously liked the young man:
- Start right now to work.
The first working day was very tense, but the young man coped. At the end of the work, the manager approached:
- Well, and how many people did you make today?
- One.
- One? At us in a shopping center sellers on the average serve from 20 to 30 purchases in day! Yes, yes! And what is the amount left in our center by the customer served by you?
- 102 516 dollars 17 cents.
"What-what?" 102 thousand 516 dollars and 17 cents! What did you sell to him?
- First I sold him a small fishing hook, then the middle one and then the biggest one. Then I sold him the most fashionable fishing rod. When he was packing these purchases, I asked where he was going to fish? He replied that he was in the Gulf of Finland. I told him that I could not do without a boat.
We went down to the boat department and I advised him to buy a twin-engine diesel boat. He liked it, but he doubted that his sports car could not tow such a boat. We went to the car department, I here and advised him a jeep PAJERO with a trailer. Today my first customer made such purchases. The manager with square eyes followed the story of his new seller:
- You want to say that this buyer came to buy a fishing hook, and eventually bought a boat and a jeep with a trailer?
- No no. He came to buy a pack of tampons for his wife. And I told him that since the weekend is still in flight, it's better to go fishing ...