Saturday, February 23, 2008

Selling Flu Shots

When Melinda and her friend Kenzi were in nursing school, they received an
assignment to sell flu shots at the local Homeland. They were very eager to
find customers so they could practice their new shot-giving skills on
someone other than each other. After about 30 minutes, Melinda became
frustrated at their lack of business. She decided to find some customers by
walking up and down the aisles and encouraging people to come visit them for a flu shot. She found two college-age guys and told them to come visit the shot station. Her reasoning was simple, "Girls won't want to kiss you if you have the flu!" After that encouragement, the young men stopped by and got their shots and Melinda and Kenzi got their practice. After hearing this story, I told Melinda that she missed her true calling - she should have been in sales instead of nursing.
~Mark