A young man applies for a job in a supercenter that sells everything under the sun. He tells the manager that he is the best person for the job.
Manager hires him, tells him that Saturday the store is having a contest. Person who sells the most money-wise wins $5,000.
All of the sales staff is at the store. They are pretty much knocking each other over for customers, except for the young man. He seems busy with just one customer.
At the end of the day, the manager looks at the totals. He tells everyone that the sales are tallied and that the young guy is the winner, with over $250,000 in one sale!
They all want to know the secret of his success. He said simply, “First, I sold the guy some fishing bait. Then I asked him where he was fishing. He then realized he needed a new rod and reel, and some fishing line. Then he needed some lures. He then looked over at the boats and decided he really wanted a new bass boat. I asked him if he had a boat trailer and hitch, and he bought those too. I asked him what he was going to pull the boat with…so he went and bought himself a new pick-up truck too!”
The other salesmen looked at him dumbstruck and said, “You sold a guy all that stuff when all he came in for was bait???”
The young man replied sheepishly, “Actually, his wife sent him in for tampons. I merely said to him, ‘since your weekend is shot anyway, why not go fishing?’” :smack: