The Would-be salesman

[Collette Darden <csdarden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

     John was a clerk in a small drugstore, but he was not much of a
salesman.  He could never find the item the customer wanted.
     Bob, the owner, had had about enough and warned John that the next
sale he missed would be his last.
    Just then a man came in coughing. He ask John for their best cough
syrup. Try as he might John could not find the cough syrup.
    Remembering his boss' warning he sold the man a box of Ex-Lax and told
him to  take it all at once. The customer did as John said and then walked
outside and leaned against a lamp post.
    Bob had seen the whole thing and came over to ask John what had
transpired.  "He wanted something for his cough, but I couldn't find the
dang cough syrup.  So, I substituted Ex-Lax and told him to take it all at
once," John explained.
"Ex-Lax?!! That won't cure a cough!" Bob shouted angrily.
"Sure it will!" John said, pointing at the man leaning on the lamp post.
"Just look at him. He's afraid to cough."

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