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Dumb Stories About Life In Sales

In my book, "You're Going To Be Great At This!" I give the reader a break with an occasional story which is pretty dumb, thus the name Dumb Story. Some people have commented that they prefer the dumb stories so much they hope my next book would be filled with them.

Instead of making you wait, I've decided to throw some dumb stories into this blog. And the stories are all true, I've just changed the names of people and places to protect the innoncent, guilty and me.

Dumb Story
Several years back, I was working for a large life insurance carrier. They constantly had training sessions and sales meetings, so it was expected they would hold a huge, 3-day sales conference in a major city. All of the first-year people got to go for free and a few of us in our crew hung out together. Meetings in the daytime, receptions in the evening and to the bars late at night.

And that's where one guy, Bob, met a young lady who was very pretty with dark hair and dark eyes. And Bob was married. He talked smack to that girl all night long. They exchanged phone numbers and after a couple of hours, he came over to the table. I really thought he was going to tell us to hit the road so he could take her back to his room.

"I'm ready to leave, fellas," he said calmly.

"What about her? You guys have been pawing at each other all night," asked another guy in our crew, Cliff.

Bob said, "Dude, I'm married. What the hell is the matter with you?" He looked hurt. "What kind of asshole do you think I am?"

So we all walked back to the hotel. We talked and I realized that Bob really was a good guy. A few weeks later we met again at a local meeting. Bob pulled out his phone and said, "Look at this. That girl keeps texting me pictures." He flashed us a picture of the naked girl on her bed for to all of us see, while pretending he was being discreet.

As Bob was waving his phone around, Cliff returned from the restroom just in time to see the nude image and say, "I'm not sure that's HIPAA compliant." Probably the funniest thing I had heard all day!



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