It was near closing time when the jingle of the door bell alerted the shop owner of another customer.
In walked an athletic framed man. He looked as if he'd been in some sports program. Well built shoulders and chest, the young man had a big smile which could only mean trouble.
"Hey, old man where is the shop owner I have the greastest idea for his business!" spouted the man in a bright and loud manner.
The shop owner looked him square in the eye saying, "I young man am the owner here, and old I am but not boasting about it!"
The young salesman saw the error of his ways but being brash and stupid continued on. "I want to show you how to make your business thrieve in this stagnated economy! If you watch this short video I have here inside this case we can talk about your future.
As the briefcase open a sales video began to play. The tired Chinaman' watched for a minute and then slammed the lid closed. "I see enough, not need fancy ways to bend minds of customers! You try hard but in wrong place. I sell ointments to heal, to help, to give attitude, to bring changes worthy of customer! My sales good and in time I move on to new location. So, you need anything from me or my shop, I help you along, but make no sale on me tonight!" said the shop owner.
The young man stood for a moment and then his face brightened up.
"So, old, ahh sir what do you think might interest me?" asked a foolish young man.
The shop owner looked at the man and smiled, "You married?" asked the Shopowner.
The young man walked about looking over the shop. "No I live alone, ah except for my significant other!" he replied.
"Who, oh you gay young man then!" asked the shopowner.
"That's right so what's it to you old man! Just can't handle the modern era of free love and free expressions! Ya, you old folks and those vows of marriage are old like you! I'm a liberated individual, I, we share our lives in open......." rambled on the young man.
"You always so defensive about you life and love that one becomes abrasive and ugly, you see a doctor about this, young man?" butted in the shopowner.
The young man now acting as a school boy made a fool of by the teacher stomped about the shop.
"I don't see what good all these funny jars are worth to anybody who might wander in here?" suggested the young saleman.
The shopowner smiled and said, " here young man is something made for one liberated person such as yourself!" Holding up a small green glass mason jar filled with a liquid.
"What you got there old man!" asked the brash young man.
"I show only kindness and be considerate when you bite at me about your chosen love life, now you back to being insulting me about my age and less than worthy thought for you!" said the shopowner back.
The young man rubbed his hand over the butch hair cut and eyed the jar in the shopowners hand.
"You sonny want to be big wheeler dealer! I see a young man trying to make his way in a world to which he is less than happy to be a part there of, yes? I have here what cost most a thousand dollars, but since I see a true need for to help you, it cost you nothing!" offered the shopowner with a little grin.
"A thousand buck huh, what's do for me?" asked the young man.
"You take briefcase, video, sample and go home now I close up!" said the shopowner as he gave the bum's rush to the young man.
In a quick move the young man found himself standing outside in the alleyway as the "CLOSED" shade pulled over the front window. So with his prize sample in hand he walked back toward the main street and on his way home. Something to consider his poor attitude as a salesman and a sample of the generousity of an old man set in the ways of the past.