Let the buyer beware
We’ve all heard the old axiom “Let the buyer beware”. It’s always stemmed from the nature of salesmanship. As a salesman, your job is to make the product sound so wonderful, so incredible, that the buyer can’t help but wonder how they ever made it through life without your good or service.
Let’s meet the world’s best saleswoman.
From the UK’s Telegraph:
An Arab ambassador has called off his wedding after discovering his wife-to-be who wears a face-covering veil is bearded and cross-eyed.
The envoy had only met the woman a few times, during which she had hidden her face behind a niqab, the Gulf News reported.
After the marriage contract was signed, the ambassador attempted to kiss his bride-to-be. It was only then that he discovered her facial hair and eyes.
Hello nurse! The ambassador is suing her (and her mother who arranged the marriage with his mother) for the slip up.
Man, that’d be a shocker, eh? Throw back the wedding veil and catch a glimpse of
Happy honeymoon! Let the jokes about the need for burkas begin. Maybe throw in a few cracks about hoping that 72 of these are Osama’s reward when he gets to heaven. Top it off with observations about the fact that at least this woman didn’t need to be faster than her brothers. You know, general mirth at someone else’s expense.
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Hmmm. I think throwing back the veil and seeing your face would be pretty grim. Oh, right, but you don’t have to wear a veil, do you? What you’re saying is that being ugly is only a problem if you’re a sex toy. Seriously — you’re describing a situation in which someone is being packaged and presented as a commodity, then rejected by the purchaser, and you say this is the world’s best SALESWOMAN? At what point was she a saleswoman, and in what sense did she make a great sale? Let the buyer beware? Let the columnist get a clue, please.