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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- On Fri, 9/26/08, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> There is a story told on the Maytag washing machine
> salesmen.  They would
> travel to the farm of a likely but hard sell customer. 
> They would make an
> excuse such as having to pick up one on the way home and
> not have room for
> it unless they left one at the farm.  They would promise to
> come by in a
> week or so and the housewife could use this one all they
> wanted.  They
> rarely had to take it back.

There was a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to prove that the housewife 
would want his machine when she saw how well it cleaned.  So without any 
explanation he dumped a bag of dirt on the carpet, and asked her where the 
plug in was.  She simply pointed out that she did not have electricity.
Van Dell