A large store was having its spring sale on shoes and boots.
It was the first day of the sale, and the shoe department was full of women who were eagerly trying to buy them. There were all kinds of shoes and boots in a variety of colors, and the prices had been reduced a lot, because the store wanted to get rid of as many as possible in order to make room for their new stock.
The cashiers were kept busy, and at one moment, a woman came to one of them with her money in her hand and said, “I don’t need a bag, thank you. I’m wearing the shoes I bought.” She pointed to them on her feet.
“Would you like a bag to put your old shoes in then?” the cashier asked politely as she took the woman’s money.
“No, thank you,” the woman answered quickly. “I’ve just sold those to someone else.”
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A disappointed salesman of Coca-Cola returned from his assignment to Saudi Arabia.
A friend asked, “Why weren’t you successful with the Saudis?”
The salesman explained, “When I got posted, I was very confident that I would make a good sales pitch. But I had a problem. I didn’t know how to speak Arabic. So I planned to convey the message through three posters. First poster: A man lying in the hot desert sand totally exhausted and fainting.
Second poster: The man is drinking Coca-Cola.
Third poster: Our man is now totally refreshed. And then these posters were posted all over the place.
“Terrific! That should have worked” said the friend.
“The hell it should have!” said the salesman. “No one told me they read from right to left.”
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My husband and I couldn’t decide which jacket to buy our granddaughter, so we asked the young salesman.
“If you were buying a jacket for your girlfriend,” I said, “what would you get?”
“A bulletproof one,” he said. “I’m married.”
