One of our young salesmen invited a V.P. to accompany him on calls in the Atlanta area. The client was a manufacturer/exporter of contraceptives and the Traffic Manager was a woman and to relax her visitors she threw a sample of her wares on the desk as souvenirs. She then said that she was soon to be married and might the ceremony take place on one of our ships with the Captain presiding? Our V.P. was not one to back off a challenge and so ordered the marine department to have the S.S. AMERICAN ALLIANCE
in the port of Jacksonville on the appointed day and also to request the Captain to perform the ceremony wearing his dress whites. And so the knot was tied and the happy couple came down the gangway clutching a ship's life preserver with our salesman showering them with rice. Now, the ALLIANCE has long gone to the scrap yard but we like to think that the "alliance" formed that day has endured.
tjs
Sequel - A manufacturer of condoms received an order from Russia with the size requested in centimeters but way off the charts. They puzzled how to treat it and called in the production manager
to review. He thought they might be bragging and suggested they fill the order as requested and stamp all the cartons MEDIUM.
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