Death of a Car Salesman
Most car salesmen that I have encountered are miserable wretches, predators that stalk car buyers in between cigarette breaks. Despite their [well-earned] scum-sucking reputation, they don’t deserve to be killed. Do they? Apparently one man in Texas thought so. During a test drive yesterday, Dodge salesman Jack Phinney was ejected from a black 2006 Ram pickup on Dallas’ Central Expressway. Whether by force or recklessness, police don’t know. The Dallas Morning News reports that one James Thorp, fled the scene and did not return the truck to the dealership. Police later arrested him at Thorp’s former place of employment. He’s being held on $3m bond. Asked about Thorp, his former boss made an asinine statement, as people are wont to do in such situations, “I know James and James is a good guy.” Yeah, a good guy who harbors homicidal hatred of car salesmen.
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I know car salesmen are annoying, but they're only trying to put food on the table. No one deserves this.
Geez, the worst thing I ever did to a salesman was about make him wet himself hooning a 300C Hemi.
I have been a car salesman for a long time and, believe it or not, the industry demands customer satisfaction like I have never seen before. It has always been frustrating for me to have to pay the price for the sterotypes. I would prefer a clean "win-win" experience with my customers. It almost hurts my feelings that most customers want first class service and at the same time hope that you don't make a dime to take home. Oh well, I could get into banking instead I suppose.LOL