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Excuse me if you've seen this one, but it's one of my favorites. I think Davidson knows this guy.

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This guy goes into one of those big, sells-everything department stores and asks to see the sales manager. After asking for a job, he is told that the store doesn�t need any more sales people.

�Just give me a chance,� he says, �I�ll work one day for no commission. If I�m not the best salesman you�ve ever seen, I�ll never bother you again.� The sales manager agrees.

At the end of the day, the sales manager asks the man what his total sales for the day were. �$97,235.71,� the would-be salesman replies.

�That�s incredible,� says the sales manager, �how many customers did you have?�

�Just one.� was the answer.

�How in the world did you sell $97,235.71 worth of merchandise to just one customer?� the sales manager asks.

�Well, this guy was going to buy some night crawlers. I rang those up on the cash register, and asked him if he needed any fishing hooks. He said he wasn�t sure he had any the right size, so I sold him an assortment of hooks in all different sizes. Then I asked him what kind of fishing pole he had. It turns out he didn�t have a very good pole, so I sold him our top-of-the-line rod and reel, plus a half-dozen spools of different kinds of line.�

�He wasn�t sure where he wanted to go fishing, so I sold him the maps for all of the lakes in the state. We looked them over and he decided he was going to go to Rose Lake. I told him the shore fishing was lousy there this time of year and asked if he had a boat. He didn�t, so I sold him our biggest bass boat with all the accessories � GPS, fish finder, water temperature gauge, the works � plus a boat trailer.�

�I asked him how he was going to get the boat to Rose Lake and it turned out he drove a little bitty compact car. So I sold him a big SUV with a trailering package. With a few add-ons for the SUV, the total came to $97,235.71.�

�Amazing,� said the sales manager, �A man came in to buy nightcrawlers and you sold him $97,235.71 in merchandise.�

�Oh, he didn�t come in to buy nightcrawlers,� said the would-be salesman, �He came in to buy some tampons for his wife, and I told him �Well, your weekend is shot, you might as well go fishing.� �