A keen Texas lad applied for a salesman's job at a city department
 store. The store was the biggest in the world and sold everything
 under the sun.
 
 "Have you ever been a salesman before?" the boss asked during his
 interview.
 
 "Yes, I was a salesman in Texas," the lad answered. The boss took
 an immediate liking to him and told him he could start the next
 day.
 
 "I'll come and see how you made out after we close up," the boss
 said.
 
 The day was long and hard for the young man, but finally it was
 5 o'clock. The boss closed up the store and found the lad sitting,
 slumped and exhausted, in a chair. 
 
 "How many sales did you make today?" the boss asked.
 
 "One," said the lad.
 
 "One?" said the boss, obviously displeased. "Most of the sales
 people on my staff make 20 or 30 sales a day. How much was the
 sale worth?"
 
 "Exactly $101,334.53," said the young man.
 
 "How did you manage that?!?" asked the boss, flabbergasted.
 
 "Well," said the lad, "this man came in and I sold him a small
 fish hook, then a medium fish hook, and finally a really large
 hook. Then I sold him a small fishing line, a medium one, and huge
 one. 
 
 I asked him where he was going fishing, and he said he was going
 down the coast. I said he'd probably need a boat, so I took him
 down to the boat department and sold him that fancy 22-foot Chris
 Craft with twin engines. 
 
 Then he said his Honda Civic probably wouldn't be able to handle
 the load, so I took him to the vehicle department and sold him a
 new GMC 1-ton pickup truck."
 
 "You sold all that to guy who came in for a fish hook?" the boss
 asked in astonishment.
 
 "He didn't come in to buy a fish hook," the Texas boy explained.
 
 "He came in to buy a box of tampons for his wife, and I said to
 him, 'Your weekend's shot. You might as well go fishing.' "