A New Salesman’s Story

John Amos is a salesman. He [ ] from house to house selling vacuum cleaners.

On his first day of work, he decided to sell his goods by [ ] on the doors of a private housing area.

“My first customer,” he thought as he [ ] the doorbell of the first house. A middle aged woman opened the door.

John began [ ] who he was and the product he was selling.

Immediately, the door was [ ] in his face.

“Not interested!” John heard her voice from [ ] the closed door.

She refused to open the door [ ] John’s persistent knocking.

John received a similar [ ] of treatment from the next seven houses.

[ ] he felt very discouraged, he knocked at the door of the ninth household.

This time, the occupants of the house [ ] him in.

They also [ ] interest in his product.

Encouraged by this, John began to explain the merits of his vacuum cleaner. When the family [ ] him for a demonstration, he got to work immediately.

[ ] the demonstration, the family, however, did not buy his product.

Instead, they politely but firmly told him that they would [ ] him if they want to buy a vacuum cleaner later.

The family did not call him up. John suspected that they had not been really interested [ ] his product.

What they had wanted was the free [ ] given by John, who had vacuumed their entire living room.