{"id":376,"date":"2025-11-21T09:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/?page_id=376"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:37:38","slug":"the-worlds-greatest-salesman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/home\/joke-page\/the-worlds-greatest-salesman\/","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Greatest Salesman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cI am the world\u2019s greatest salesman.\u201d He tells the manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe shall see.\u201d Says the manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will give you one day. We will see how you do and, if you do ok, the job is yours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next day the young man reports to the store bright and early. The manager looks in on him from time to time. At the end of the day, the manger calls the young man over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s see how you did.\u201d The manager says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI made one sale.\u201d The young man replies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne sale? I thought you were the world\u2019s greatest salesman?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was for $103,456,22.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou made a $100,000 sale? How?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI sold this guy a Chevy Suburban.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have $100,000 Suburbans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, I told him he would need a new SUV to pull his new boat trailer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe came in for a boat trailer and you sold him an SUV?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo, he need the trailer to haul the boat I sold him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe came in for a boat and you sold him the trailer AND an SUV?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo. He needed the boat to go with the rod and reel I sold him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWait. A man came in to buy a rod and reel and you sold him a boat, trailer and SUV to go with it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo he didn\u2019t come if for a rod and reel. He came in for tampons for his wife. I told him, \u2018your weekend is shot, you might as well go fishing\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am the world\u2019s greatest salesman.\u201d He tells the manager. \u201cWe shall see.\u201d Says the manager. \u201cI will give you one day. We will see how you do and, if you do ok, the job is yours.\u201d The next day the young man reports to the store bright and early. The manager looks in on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":44,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-376","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376\/revisions\/377"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}