I zeroed out again Thursday, so today I spent the day in Huntsville, AL following Mike Yandre. It was a pretty fun day. My first day in the rain. We only had one customer all day, which I guess should make me feel better about zeroing out.
It's midnight. I need to sleep now. I'll have to write more about this later.
UPDATE: 12/31/2004
Here it is just over seven months later and I still remember quite a bit about this day. I ran across this entry today because I am clearing comment spam out and closing comments on my entries again.
I remember running around in the rain. Letting Mike drive my Jeep for a bit. I also remember talking to a lady with this huge Box Tops for Education display that I admired. The whole day was exhausting and we stayed out for a long time trying to sell. I am thinking that this is the first time I sold with Mike, but I am not sure. Both times we nerely zeroed out when selling together, which is odd. It made me feel like I was somehow bad luck at the time, but then I later felt that Mike might have just picked a less promising area of Hunstville or had a bad day himself. I really don't know what happened though, because it is odd to sell absolutely nothing in a day.
Since this is the day that I got home around midnight, I am guessing that it is also the day that we stayed out well past 9:30PM because the last house we knocked on at 9:30 was the house of a salesman. He had a little kid and was considering buying the books. He didn't that night though, and I am betting that Mike went back to finalize the sale on another day.
I also remember going to Huntsville with Marcus on this day. The whole hour or so drive there I was wondering which one of us would be following Marie and which would follow Mike Yandre. I had reasons for wanting to follow both of them and reasons why I didn't want to follow them, so in the hour of thinking about it I got to a point where I didn't really care which person I followed for the day. Now that the summer is over I wish I had followed Marie, because I got to follow Yandre again later in the summer, but never got the chance to see how Marie sells. At the end of the day I was pretty happy that I followed Yandre though, because I got a little bit closer to him. However, any friendship that was developing there snapped when I got his truck into my second car accident.
Posted by David at May 29, 2004 01:00 AM