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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!looking!funny-request
- Message-ID: <S4c6.6ae@looking.on.ca>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 4:30:03 EST
- Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
- From: sbeitzel@netcom.com (Stephen Beitzel)
- Subject: Salesman of the Month
- Keywords: smirk, true
- Approved: funny@clarinet.com
- Lines: 26
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- I just got back from the aquarium supply store up the street. It's a specialty
- shop, not a generic pet store. It caters strictly to people who keep fish.
- I walked up to the guy at the counter and the following conversation ensued:
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- "Can I help you?"
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- "Hi, yes, I need a water pump, one that will pump from 3 to 4 hundred gallons
- per hour."
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- In salesperson school, I am certain that they teach you that the correct
- response to this question is, "Why, certainly, here's this $4,000.00
- Super Deluxe Sucker 5GX (tm)." Apparently this guy had missed that part,
- or he just did the take-home version of the test because his response was:
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- "What for?"
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- Ever the helpful patron, I replied, "I want to pump water around in a tank."
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- And he accused *me* of being a smartass. :}
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