And ours was David. I had no idea what a good salesman he is until seeing him in action today. He could sell a ketchup icypole to a lady in a white dress as Christopher put it.
My Border Watch advertisement was carefully crafted with words like 'boomerangs', 'steel axeheads' and 'wood copper' - all of which did well - but the clear winner was 'rabbit traps' which 8 people turned up to buy. The early bird got the worm and bought all 12 of them. 'Books' did better than expected and maybe I put too many in the recycle bin last week. 'Records' was a surprise with one customer buying 57.
My favourite customer was the little boy who badly wanted a didgeridoo: he huffed and puffed and turned purple while elder brother laughed, then he proudly produced this dreadful mooing noise and was hooked for life. Salesman David sprang into action and value-added a CD of how to play it and granny paid up.
Granny also bought my compactus (sliding shelves) so that's one less thing to move to Beechwood.
It was a successful day, finished in time for David to go to tennis, thanks to Alison and Christopher helping to clear up. Daisy and Chris brought buns for morning tea which was much appreciated.
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