{"id":13,"date":"2008-02-21T19:42:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T00:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-03-04T23:32:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T04:32:35","slug":"a-young-guy-from-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/2008\/02\/21\/a-young-guy-from-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"A young guy from Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young guy from Minnesota moves to Florida and goes to a  big &#8220;everything under one roof&#8221; department store looking for a  job.<\/p>\n<p>The manager says, &#8220;<em>Do you have any sales experience?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The kid  says &#8220;<em>Yeah. I was a salesman back in Minnesota.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, the boss liked the  kid and gave him the job. &#8220;<em>You start tomorrow. I&#8217;ll come down after we close  and see how you did.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His first day on the job was rough, but he got  through it After the store was locked up, the boss came to see him. &#8220;How many  customers bought something from you today?<\/p>\n<p>The kid says  &#8220;<strong><em>One<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The boss says &#8220;<em>Just one? Our sales people average 20 to 30  customers a day. How much was the sale for?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The kid says,  &#8220;<em><strong>$101,237.65.<\/strong><\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The boss says, &#8220;<strong><em>$101,237.65? What the heck did you sell  him<\/em><\/strong>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The kid says, &#8220;<em>First, I sold him a small fish hook. Then I sold him  a medium fishhook. Then I sold him a larger fishhook. Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said  down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat, so we went down  to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he  said he didn&#8217;t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down  to the automotive department and sold him that 4&#215;4 Expedition.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The  boss said, &#8220;<em><strong>A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a BOAT and  a TRUCK? Is that right<\/strong><\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The kid answered<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;No, the guy came in here to  buy <em>Tampons<\/em> for his wife, and I said, &#8216;<em>Dude, your weekend&#8217;s shot; you should  go fishing<\/em>.'&#8221;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young guy from Minnesota moves to Florida and goes to a big &#8220;everything under one roof&#8221; department store looking for a job. The manager says, &#8220;Do you have any sales experience?&#8221; The kid says &#8220;Yeah. I was a salesman back in Minnesota.&#8221; Well, the boss liked the kid and gave him the job. &#8220;You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,38,39,102],"tags":[255,47,34,35,254,253,252],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-men","category-women","category-work","tag-255","tag-florida","tag-minnesota","tag-sales","tag-shop","tag-shopping","tag-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}