Greetings everyone,
Seems like I just cannot get around to posting recently. I have had some good thoughts, but by the time I get home or think about posting the thoughts have disappeared into the neuron sphere.
Time to rededicate as they say, get back in the race, or other trite phrases that produce some much productivity. yep, nothing like dime store philosophy to encourage you to be creative.
So here I am stuck with the truth, get disciplined, yet it never hurts to have a plan also.
And with the elections coming up and all that is going on, you might think the motivation to be engaged would be there.
So with all that is going on, let’s first say I do not like Charles III. The Queen was an inspiration and something that represented the Monarchy well. God rest her soul and I will let the true historians address her life in detail because that will happen. The books will be flying into the bookstores shortly.
The first Monday in October is less than a month away. Will the DOJ’s appeal be that far along then? It is absolutely crazy a Judge in our country would decide a criminal investigation has a hierarchy of how individuals are treated. The DOJ is appealing from what I saw in a headline and that should shoot through the Courts until it is resolved. I would love to see our Supreme Court try to justify writing an opinion that backs the Judge. If you thought the Democrats were crazy about talking about packing the Court, you can expect that to be grown exponentially. A person charged with a crime is innocent until proven guilty true, but letting a person be treated different from everyone else is completely against our Constitution.
Many years ago I use to create stories in this blog. I would come up with an idea start the story and then over the next few posts continue it based on how I felt that day. Sometimes I had a rough idea of where I wanted it to head and sometimes I just let the wind take me where it wanted to go. To help me get back into regular writing again (hopefully) I am going to start a new story, nothing fancy just something to get myself going again. I wonder what will happen this time. Here goes:
The man walked into the jewelry store and was looking around at the various counters. He was an older gentleman, maybe in his early sixties. He appeared out of place in this store. This was one of the more fine jewelry stores in town that was locally owned. Working in the store that day were two woman and another gentleman who only worked part time.
The women were snobbish to say the least and since the customer had on old brown slacks and a shirt that appeared a bit frayed they did not want to bother with helping the man. Of course they observed his shoes and well a little polish might have helped, but nothing that said to the women this man had any money.
The man working part time you could call semi-retired. He too was in his early sixties and widowed. He had retired, but since his wife had passed he took on this part time work to help out his friend the owner. He used the extra money he made in commissions to travel to all the places he and his wife had put on their bucket list. Some called it sad, and he was sad, he missed her, but on every trip she was in his heart and he was glad to go. He spoke with her in his mind the whole trip.
The man approached the customer. He was sizing the customer up, but not about how much money he had, he was trying to determine how to approach him. The customer seemed very lost and the salesman sensed it wasn’t because he walked into a store he didn’t want to be in, yet rather he wanted something but didn’t know how to shop. The customer had that look of desperately wanting someone to recognize the help he needed.
The customer was also very shy. He worked hard his whole life and in his business he was very comfortable, but running around in the world was something he rarely did.
The salesman walked up to the man and tried starting some casual conversation. He asked him about his day, had he been shopping long, and instead of saying if you need any help, I will be right over there, he asked him if had been in this store before or had he been to other stores shopping.
The customer had been to other fine jewelry stores and had been treated indifferently in all of them. Since the customer never shopped for new clothes, his wife always bought clothes for him, he never thought when you go out people will judge you by what you wear especially in stores where there might be a few money judgmental people. He was on a mission and he knew he was going to spend a good amount of money so he honestly did not understand why it was so hard to be helped.
So by the time he had walked into this store, he was very skeptical of all sales people and so did not warm up to the salesman at all even though this salesperson was what had expected from people in a nice store.
The salesman did not push or stand by him while he walked around, yet the salesman was close and kept up a bit of light conversation. The salesman was trying to find what interested the customer by this conversation. He was a great salesman. The owner knew he would be. It was hard to get people who would work passionately and since he had known his friend for a long time he slowly convinced him to come on board. The owner’s expectations were exceeded and had become very reliant on the sales capabilities of his friend. During slow times the salesman would go on his travels, but during the holidays he worked with a inspired passion and increased sales dramatically.
Today was a slow day, but the salesman was on the schedule so he was making the most of every opportunity. While the salesman was trying to size up the customer another lady walked into the store. The two ladies immediately came to her aid, however, they also knew her and were not shocked when she said she would wait on the salesman. She was a very gregarious woman, yet waited patiently for the salesman to recognize her. He had the first minute she had walked into the store, but he wanted to build up some rapport with the customer before letting him wonder around the store or worse wonder out.
After a few minutes the salesman asked the gentleman if he could be excused to help the lady. He promised he would be right back. The customer said he would look around and maybe come back. Well.... this did not sit well with our salesman so he told the customer, no he was there for him and not to leave without saying good bye.
The salesman gathered himself, and went to interact with the lady. Oh the conversation was animated and lively. They had their back and forth to get started. She loved the way this man paid attention to her and she came into the store half the time just to be entertained.
The salesman asked her if he could check on his other customer from time to time while they talked and she expressed some feign trepidation that she would not get his 100 percent attention. She truly understood though. The salesperson did peak her interest when he said I cannot remember how long it has been since you bought new earrings. I have a new shipment.
Shockingly she was actually looking for earrings for a new dress she had bought for an evening out planned the upcoming weekend. She said to the man, you see right through me, how did you know?
He brought out a tray of new earrings for her to browse while he went back to the man. Now normally items that are brought out for presentation are not just left with the customer, however most of the regulars were well known and the owner found great success by a little leniency in this regard. The other two sales ladies came over and the three of them enjoyed comparing the wears.
The salesman went back to the customer and his next question was more to open up the man about what he was looking to buy. He asked him are you looking for something traditional or something unique. The customer replied hesitantly he didn’t know. He was also thinking to himself, how would I know if I am looking for something traditional or unique. He wouldn’t know if anything was unique so his guard went up. Was the salesperson going to try and trick him into spending too much money on something? Yet this was the first time anyone had asked him this type of question. Everyone that did ask, always wanted to know if this was for a special occasion and that was it. It was for a special occasion but he wasn’t saying that to anyone yet.
So the salesman sensing he wasn’t going to get an answer right away, tried asking if this was for him or someone else, and even joked are you having to find something for your wife so she won’t get mad when you buy something for yourself? A new truck maybe, some golf clubs? The customer attempted a small laugh. The customer said he was looking for an anniversary ring.
To be continued.....
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