A peek at a salesman's life

Sorry. You have to excuse me for speaking too much, but I love to talk and talking is my profession, sort of a way. I am a salesman and my success or failure is directly proportional to how much I talk. Garbage, gibberish, whatever adjective you want to put it to it will do. But I must not allow you to think. For thinking people do not need goods for which salesmen are appointed.

So where do I start? Doesn’t matter as long as I start anywhere. Heck, I have started anyway, you have come this far reading 10 sentences, 100 words 418 characters and still counting. Thank you for your attention, but no thank you, cause that’s my job to make myself important and always knowing more than what you thought you would not need but now you realize you need it badly as I need you to realize it how badly you need it.

So here we are. You accepting my superiority and humbly accepting your inferiority and still you don’t hate me.

Are you curious to read more? I bet you do. So let’s continue. As I said I am a salesman and my primary job is to sell stuff. Now, I don’t have anything tangible to sell you right now but I am glad to have your attention as someday I would come knocking at your door with all the smart stuff that I have to sell. I am glad you cannot throw me rightaway as we have already communicated so far. But I am a good salesman and by the end of this little illuminating discourse, I will manage to sell you something.

A little background may be of help to you. I was appointed a salesman a few years ago, nine to be precise and I was given a bag and a toiletry kit and asked to return to the office with money but not the goods. I was not told who to sell it and how do I sell it. My bosses were not bothered if I would slit the throat of my fellow passenger, rob him and dump all the goods at his feet. It was accepted as a good sales practice. As long as I came empty-handed and hand them over the cash for the day I was a good salesman and my job remains. I was supposed to be confirmed after three months and I had to be a good salesman at any cost.

You know what I did. I told my father to invest on me and soon I was filling my room with all kinds of shampoos and soaps and washing powders and borrowing money from my father. It was the question of my job and my father never really spend on me enough than what he did to my elder brother. He made him an engineer out of his money. To me, he did nothing. I became a salesman on my own. No son-of a bitch, not even my father, can take credit for that. But of course he did support me in my initial months.

I was a star salesperson soon and I was given a contract for three years. They had accepted me and I could finally wear that tie knowing well that for the rest of my life I am tied firmly to this profession. I was proud of my achievement and thankful to my dad for supporting me.

The real test came when he stopped supporting me. I was confirmed and my agreement was with him to support me till I get my contract. He stopped ‘buying’ my goods and I had to go out and face the world. Rather, I had to go out and face the watchmen of the buildings who won’t let a salesman enter the posh flats. But then persistence and a few Gandhis help. I was soon entering the high society and selling them my detergents or the body shampoos. Luckily my company was a well-known one, at least on the advertisement front and there were enough advertisements all around for people to be familiar with our products. My products were priced 20% less than what they would get in a supermart and I was soon the favourite of the bored middle-aged Indian wives.

I was friends with most of them in many societies and I was good friend with many of them. I did become special friends to about four-five of them and got intimate with two of them but that is another story. But that should not surprise you. It is part of a salesman's life and by now you know I have the gift of the gab and you don't know but I must tell you ... I am handsome too.
I had no qualms in lying to my customers about their beauty and I was surprised to find how dull women can be on this subject. Even when they know you are lying through your teeth, they will believe you if you compliment on their beauty.

You may benefit from my experience on this. Just use: ‘charming personality’ to a revoltingly ugly woman and ‘charming presence’ to a woman who could be beautiful at one point but now is brutally beaten by time. You inevitably will manage to sell two packets of detergent powder and at least one shampoo. So that’s a little trade secret that I shared with you. I don’t mind if you do good in your life using these tips and you don’t need to recognize me as your guru but please don’t come selling anything at my locality. I am the alpha dog of my neighborhood. You will be fucked.

Sorry, I digressed. By the way, what was I discussing? Doesn’t matter. I have lot of things to discuss with you about my life. Most interesting of all is how is that I have so many things to discuss with you.

You see that comes with experience. The more you are experienced, the more you realize that there is no point running around. Every man has a destiny to follow and even if you don’t want to, that destiny will end up following you. For example, it is my destiny to write this garbage and it is your destiny to read me. I don't know how you came to my blog but the fact that you are reading it is because it was your destiny. So stop fighting with your bad luck and accept me. Read on. Besides, it's my job too. I specialize in entering garbage in your head and it is not my fault that you are still reading it.You have just succumbed to my skills. Thank me, love me for being so skillful.
I can go on and on and on about me and you can read on and on and on because I am a good salesman-writer. But I must stop now because it’s time for me to go home.

Thank you for being my customer. In case you are wondering what I managed to sell you, continue to wonder.

No, don’t wonder. It is the job of all good salesman to tell you after selling the stuff how many other things they need to buy as ancillaries and how useless the stuff they just bought is without those add-ons.

So here you go: I sold you my boredom of sitting in a fuckin office whole day long with nothing but just a computer where even soft-porn sites are banned. Can you imagine a salesman’s life without porn sites? How do we live then? Why should we live anyway?

If you are wondering what are the ancillaries I plan to sell you ... don’t fret. It’s very simple. I shall sell you online a book by the famous author whose name I am presently forgetting. It is called, “Ye fuckfaces, stop peeking at others’ and get a life …”