Gone Fishin 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 you wanted 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 way he looked and hired him.. "You can start tomorrow and I'll come see you when we close up." The day was long for the young man, but finally 5 o'clock came around. The boss found the lad and asked him, "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?" asked the boss... "Three hundred thousand, three hundred and thirty five dollars" said the young man... "How did you manage that?" asked the flabbergasted boss. "Well, 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 told him 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 the boat, 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 at that to a guy who came in for a fish hook?" "No" answered the salesman, "He came in for a box of Tampons for his wife and I said to him, As long as your weekend's already ruined, you may as well go fishing...." ---------- Submitted by: Naeem Ahmed Nothing but Jokes by Nauman Faridi