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You might be a salesperson if....

bullet Your anniversary dinner ever included a client.

bullet You sat in the center seat on an airplane and ten minutes into the flight the people in the aisle and window seats left.

bullet Your kid's birthday present looked a lot like a product sample.

bullet Your spouse's anniversary present has the name of a hotel on it.

bullet You turned in an expense report and found yourself trying to convince your manager that your customer has a 900 number.

bullet Your vacation involved your spouse working a booth.

bullet You had to pay $20 for a club sandwich from room service.

bullet You used pictures of your wife and kids to shame a customer into signing a purchase order.

bullet Your fellow employees applauded upon learning that you had laryngitis.

bullet You walk through the mall and find yourself on the screen at the video camera display and you stop, stare and smile and yell, Hey, everybody, look at this!

bullet Anyone ever said, Have we met before?, and you answered, No. If we had met before you would have remembered me.

bullet You can recognize the source of the meat in an airline meal.

bullet You cannot recognize the source of the moldy food in the bottom of your attach case.

bullet You've ever wondered why more people cannot be more like you.

bullet Your friends have a tendency to grab their wallets when they see you coming.

bullet You bought an electronic organizer to help you become more organized and you cannot find it.

bullet You think the best way to start a meeting is, Here, have another doughnut.

bullet You ever blamed losing a sale on UFO's or aliens.

bullet Your boss has a tendency to begin meetings with you by holding up their hand and saying, I don't want to hear it.

bullet Your customer has a tendency to begin meetings with you by holding up their hand and saying, I don't want to hear it.

bullet The register in your checkbook has never been used.

bullet The last time you cleaned off your desk, disco music was popular.

bullet Your score in Space Fighters has continued to improve since your company gave you a notebook computer.

bullet You can make coffee in the office coffee maker blindfolded.

bullet Your expense report has ever been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

bullet You ever used Libyan terrorists as an excuse for being late to a meeting.

bullet You took product samples to your high school reunion.

bullet You ever made a sales presentation to an unidentified person in the next stall in a public rest room.

bullet You think Business Casual includes swim wear.

bullet You can drive a stick shift with a cellular phone in one hand and your appointment book in the other.

bullet You are turned on by a member of the opposite sex who can overcome the price objection.

bullet You secretly envy men who can wear gold chains, white shoes and belts and not feel self conscious.

bullet You're on a first name basis with a morning waitress at a coffee shop near your office.

bullet You ever began preparing a major presentation after midnight the night before the meeting.

bullet The cable company sends someone out to disconnect your service for nonpayment and you wind up selling them a set of pots and pans.

bullet You ever tried selling Mary Kay products to a nun.

bullet You ever trashed product catalogs to make more room for trophies on your shelf.

bullet You ever felt rejected because your company's annual report did not feature your picture on the cover.

bullet You have more than 50 business cards of unfamiliar people and you have no idea why.

bullet You ever used a palm reader to write your sales plan.

bullet It ever took you more than thirty minutes to answer the customer's question, How was your weekend?

bullet You ever found yourself alone on one side of a crowded fishing boat.

bullet You ever mentioned a spiff during a eulogy.

bullet You have never listened to a sales training tape all the way through.

bullet You ever took customers on a plant tour and they learned more about your golf game than your company.

bullet You were ever snowed in at an airport and you organized luggage cart races.

bullet You ever did a product demonstration for a monk.

bullet You ever pulled a D&B on a dinner guest.

bullet Your spouse has ever said, Move your computer, printer, attach, popcorn, candy wrappers and TV remote so we can go to bed.

bullet If there are more trophies and plaques on your desk than files.

bullet You ever did a product demo in a traffic jam.

bullet You have ever wondered what those envelopes full of checks the bank sends you every month are all about.

bullet Every employee suggestion you ever submitted had something to do with music or recreational equipment.

bullet You were doing a product demo when any of your children were born.

bullet You swapped product samples for your spouse's wedding ring.

bullet The people you work with lock up their pencils and leave proprietary company documents unlocked.

bullet The Easter Bunny ever saw your Christmas tree.

bullet You still have something polyester secretly hidden in your closet and you wear it when no one is around.

bullet You ever drove around a BRIDGE OUT barricade just to see.

bullet You never have to leave early for appointments because you know a shortcut.

bullet Your favorite Christmas present was a mirror.

bullet You ever double dog dared a customer to buy from a competitor.

bullet Your good deed for the day was not parking in your manager's reserved space.

bullet You ever tried to convince your boss that the only available rental cars were convertibles.

bullet You find many admirable qualities in Herb Tarlick, WKRP.

bullet Your child took a product sample to school for show and tell and covered the features, benefits, delivery intervals and credit terms from memory.

bullet You ever tried to convince operations that manufacturing schedules were really just suggestions.

bullet You enclosed a product brochure with your Christmas cards.

bullet You look at a parentteacher conference as an opportunity to expand your downline.

bullet You ever considered driving a carnival bumper car as a travel expense.

bullet You ever gave a toll booth operator a product brochure.

bullet There is more food on your tie than on your plate.

bullet If most of your social contacts answer to names like Bambi and Rock.

bullet Your expense report itemization column simply has two words, trust me.

bullet If a cab driver ever asked you how many receipts you wanted and you said, All of them.

bullet If your idea of a power breakfast is a hangover remedy.

bullet If you know 20 different ways to give a high five.

bullet If you have a large collection of hotel shoe shine mitts and none of them has ever been used.

bullet If you ever said, I'd sell a lot more if I just had decent leads.

bullet If you ever said to a customer, Actually, I'd love to see pictures from your vacation.

bullet If you have missed more than four sales meetings to attend a grandparent's funeral.

bullet If your customer can recite in unison with you your excuse for being late.

bullet If your spouse left you for someone else and you described it as a competitive loss.

bullet If you ever said to a customer, No, I don't mind if you smoke in my car.

bullet If you insisted on a fax machine in your Honeymoon suite.

bullet If you ever tried to barter a speeding ticket with product samples.

bullet If you ever gave your business card to a receptionist and she notified your customer by saying IT'S here again.

bullet If all of your files are labeled Miscellaneous.

bullet If you ever walked into your office and said, I know it's here somewhere....

bullet If you ever returned a rental car and said, It was like that when I rented it.

bullet If you ever returned a rental car and said, Uh, of course the tank is full, the gauge is broken.

bullet If you ever said to a hotel cashier, There is no way I could have rented twelve movies.

bullet If you ever put Wild Turkey on an expense report and classified it as a client Thanksgiving gift.

bullet If you ever said, Are you sure I am not already on the upgrade list?

bullet If you ever tried using a product sample to get on the upgrade list.

bullet If you have ever amazed yourself at what you could say with a straight face.

bullet If you ever responded to the fast food person's question, Do you want fries with that, by saying, If I did that for you...

bullet If your customer ever asked you about your competitor and you responded, Oh, you didn't hear about the indictment?

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