A day in the life of a Car Salesman

I worked at the largest Ford dealer in the Southeast. Long-Lewis Ford. We sold 500-600 retail units a month, 1100 fleet units and about 200 heavy trucks back in the day. We had 43 salespeople at the time and boy, did we have some characters. We had this lady named Muriel Farley, a dingy little woman but what she did not have in brains she made up for in enthusiasm.

One day she caught a customer, a black guy, driving a brand new 350z. It even had the dealer tags still on it. He told her that he had just bought it but did not like it. He wanted a Mustang GT and was going to trade the 350z for it. Well, Muriel got really excited and saw dollar signs in her eyes. She just knew that she had a deal. So, after about an hour of negotiating with this guy, she closed him and thought she was something else. Anyway, as they are waiting on a Finance office to open, the police come in and tell her that the guy had stolen the car from the Nissan store about a mile from us. They arrest him and take him to jail and she tells everyone how she just knew something wasn't right. I told her, "Yeah, right. That is why you went all the way through the process. You know you did not know"...

Anyway, the day continues on and at about 5pm, the same guy comes back in, looks up Muriel and tells her that he knows he stole the 350z but he really did want to buy the Mustang. Seems as if he got bailed out fairly quickly. Anyway, the managers came over and ran the guy off and told him they did not want his business. You should have seen Muriel's face when the guy came back in. She almost shit herself