Yesterday I followed Clerison all day long. It was a little crazy and maybe even uncomfortable at first, but we got used to each other fairly quickly and eventually it turned out to be a lot of fun.
We started out in the "PJs" of Altoona. Clerison uses a lot of slang from Miami and the rap subculture. That was an interesting place to start. We talked a fair amount and Clerison was constantly clowning with anyone and everyone. I found out fairly quickly that he likes to stay diversified in most things such as his humor, his women, and his stock portfolio.
I learned a lot from following him for the day, and I am really glad that I decided early on to ask him about taking notes. I took roughly eight pages of notes on my Ampad. He has so many lines. A lot of them I'd never use, but he has enough for me to fill up eight pages worth of things that I would like to say some time in the future.
Following Clerison was also a lot better than following Dahnell. Dahnell was overly serious most of the time and only had fun at my expense, which gets old for me almost instantly. Clerison would joke around occasionally, and 'hazed' me by getting me to carry his bag the whole day, but that was no big deal to me. Dahnell had more of a ridicule based sense of humor. He still does. It gets annoying really quickly, but I hope to just get accostomed to it, because I am in a situation where I can't change much of anything except the way I look at things.
I have like seven or eight pages of notes that I took when I followed Clerison today. I think I'd like to add them to this blog at some point later on, but I don't know when or if I'll get time. I didn't have time when I started writing this so I saved it as a draft and now I still have no time so I am just wrapping it up and publishing this, which is unfortunate because there were a lot of fun stories to include that I will forget and a few that I've probably already forgotten. That's the life of a SouthWestern salesperson. Constant memory loss. Probably due to the lack of sleep coupled with the constant inundation of new experiences.
Posted by David at May 15, 2004 11:00 PM