Thursday, June 21, 2012

I Was a Teen-age Clothing Store Salesman: Notes for a Training Manual

Straighten stock when not waiting on customers. Never stand around with your hands in your pockets.

Promote cuff links; they have the largest profit margin.

Dec. 28, 2007

Dec. 28, 2007
In the waning years of WW II, we were living in Rockville Center, Long Island, I was about 12 and dad was dying of a brain tumor. Mom said NYC was no place for a widow to bring up a child, so she packed us up and we took a train to her childhood home in Detroit Lakes Minnesota. That's where she met and married this widower. He was a clothing salesman and outdoorsman.

Dec. 27, 2007

Dec. 27, 2007
Hamburger at Petes Place

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