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To: E'Lane who wrote (38054)	2/10/1999 10:21:00 AM
From: Jack Colton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50264

Well, not a lot happening... This is me as a high schooler, with my 1st job in retail: A keen country lad applied for a salesman's job at a city department store. In fact it was the biggest store in the world - you could get anything there. The boss asked him, "Have you ever been a salesman before?" Yes, I was a salesman in the country" said the lad. The boss liked the cut of 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 o'clock came around. The boss duly fronted up and asked, "How many sales did you make today?". "One," said the young salesman. "Only one," blurted the boss, "Most of my staff make 20 or 30 sales a day. How much was the sale worth?" "Three hundred thousand 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 big 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 Volkswagen probably wouldn't be able to pull it, so I took him to the car department and sold him the new Deluxe Cruiser." The boss 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 salesman "He came in to buy a box of Tampons for his wife and I said to him, 'Your weekend's shot, you may as well go fishing.'"

To: E'Lane who wrote (38054)	2/10/1999 12:09:00 PM
From: Abraham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50264

{{{{{{{E'Lane}}}}}}} Just checking in with my old friend. -Abe

To: E'Lane who wrote (38054)	2/10/1999 12:32:00 PM
From: Lazarus Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50264

{{{{{{{{{{E'LANE!!!!!}}}}}}}}}} I am just so damned proud of my sister! That was quite a series of posts last night... it echoed my sentiments and it was just perfect, far as I'm concerned. To Jack: believe it or not, I joined SI because of this thread a few months back. The thread was very enthusiastic, naive, sharing and just plain caring. IMO, there are a number of reasons for the current tone of the thread, but I believe that most can be traced back to a bad mixture of those that feel hurt and those that have ego. My opinion only... If you stick around long enough, I think you willl find that most of the folks that post on this thread are not only decent people, but they are good people too. I have had the pleasure of meeting several face to face now (under a couple of different circumstances) and in the case of all of them... what you read is what you get. I believe that is a good thing. Lazarus