the worst salesperson

Grandma Jo was the worst salesperson in the world. I’ll give you some examples and you can decide for yourself.

As I’ve told you before, she was very frugal with her money. In other words she was cheap. She wouldn’t spend money on anything. And often in her effort to save money she would buy things that were so awful that she had to spend additional money to make this normal.

Once she purchased some candy bars at one of our “scratch and dent” grocery stores. She would take a bite into one and find out it was not to her liking. She would look at the person closest to her and say something like… “This candy bar is awful! Do you want it?”

Everyone would laugh at the idea of eating something that someone else thought was bad. And Grandma Jo would laugh along.

Once she purchased a chair. Obviously it had to be cheap. I was surprised it came from a store and was new. She had me go pick it up because I had a truck and at the time a good back.

We went and she paid for it. The store people showed me where it was and I braced myself to pick it up. It was very light weight and I overestimated the weight and jerked it off the floor thinking it was heavy.

As I carried it to the truck I could see some of the components that should have been wood were cardboard.

The chair sat in there living room and people would set in it until it began to “list to port”. It was leaning. If you sat in it you were “cock eyed”. Uneven. 

So everyone knew to avoid that chair.

When grandma had visitors she would tell them the chair was awful, it leaned and then asked if they would like to own it.

No one took her up on the deal.

It found it’s way to the happy hunting grounds where chairs go to their eternal rest.

Grandma Jo was a “pill” and not a good salesperson.

We all had a good time with her “cheapness” and she laughed along with us.