This is a true story. I wish I could take credit for a tale so fantastic as this but my meager abilities at spinning stories pale in light of this one truly bizarre circumstance.
The roads were lightly populated this morning. It seemed strange to have Alcoa Highway to myself. My morning commute is usually […]

Sorry but i worked a long and intense day. I’m too beat to write anything of substance. Here’s a best of selection based on e-mails we received. Hey, I’m turning into Johnny Carson.
So here goes.
The first story that pops into my pea-brain happened a couple of days ago. I was visiting a fellow misfit at […]

Car salesmen get lots of funny e-mail. People figure if we’re stupid enough to choose to be car salesmen we’ll fall for anything. I opened the company account this morning and this is what I found.
Believe it or not.
Hello Burke. I work in company E-exchange Finland. Our company to be in
Finland. But […]

Going off the car lot track here.
What the hell is going on with television? Every time I think they’ve found the bottom of the programming barrel, they dig around a little lower and say, “Now this looks good.”
I turned on the tube last night to see if anything even remotely interesting was happening and can […]

There was a salesman at the Ford dealership, his name was Mister Bailey. He had worked at that franchise for over forty years. He was in his eighties and a true old school salesman from the days when being a car salesman looked better than being an axe murderer on your resume.
Mister Bailey had photographs […]

Between gigs at the Honda store and the Nissan franchise, I worked for the other Ford dealer in town. The sales people there were the roughest crew I ever had the honor of working with. They made Lying Lawrence look like a sophisticate. The senior man there was a portly red faced gent named Stu. […]

Very early in my sales career I found a little Mom and Pop store. We sold Hondas at a time when there weren’t enough Hondas to go around. There was a waiting list for Civics and Accords. If a customer balked at paying sticker price or sometimes more than sticker, we dropped them and said, […]

I had great intentions before I left for the training session in Nashville. Daily reports on funny characters and incidents. But after eight hours of absorbing knowledge my brain couldn’t form the stories. This meeting was actually helpful but my brain was fried at the end of each day. I’ll get back to the daily […]

After a three hour drive with two chatty salesmen, six hours of training and a high carb buffet for dinner I’m done for the day. I’ll try to be witty tomorrow.
Keep the faith.
Paul

Bob Love was one of the most decent men I’ve ever met but the first day I worked with him he pissed me off. He just left a Toyota dealership. I was trying to sell a used Sienna van so I asked him a few technical questions. Being the sponge-brain I am, the information evaporated […]