Part 2 in the “sexual references in gas stations across America” series (see May 28, 2000 post). The great part about it was that these gas stations were scattered all over the Des Moines area!
(for those of you that live in the Bay Area, yes that really is a $1.17 for premium gas!)
Unbelievable, one of the Amway guys that I have spoken to in the past (see the September 3 rant below) actually called me up at home. Now before you say anything, yes, I realize I was asking for it when I gave him my home number (tho for the life of me I can’t remember doing that). The really ridiculous thing is that he expected me to devote part of my Thanksgiving weekend speaking to him about his opportunity.
Well, I was cleaning out my wallet when I came across the business card of this guy I met last week. Let me ask you, what is it about me that attracts all of these stinkin’ Amway salesmen??? For some reason I have met way more than my fair share of these people in the last couple of years.
[For those of you who are not familiar, Amway is a complicated pyramid scheme – do a Google search on "Amway" an you will come up with many sites that will explain it better than I can (obviously, skip the first link that comes up to the Amway site itself, you won’t get any useful information there!)]
Let’s analyze my interactions so far…
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| November 21, 2001 | Unbelievable, the guy calls me up at home (I can’t believe that I gave him my home number!) and wants to know if I’ll spend part of my thanksgiving weekend meeting with him | Either Raja or Rajesh below (can’t remember) | |
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| August 24, 2001 | Palo Alto Fry’s, I was looking at mice, minding my own business | Raja, president of RM International |
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| Mid 2000 | Sunnyvale Fry’s, I was checking out the new flat panel monitors, minding my own business |
Rajesh, Bizonet | |
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| Mid-1998, on 2-3 separate occasions | Sapient’s Perimeter Atlanta office, in the elevator | Random dude in the elevator |
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| Early 1998 |
San Bruno Comp USA, I was looking for a parallel port splitter, minding my own business | Jukka, JCM Enterprises | |
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Based on my experiences, there are many common traits that these people all have. You can recognize an Amway salesman if:
Some of these guys are better at the spiel than others. A good Amway salesman will introduce their "opportunity" very casually into the conversation. If they are less experienced it will be clear that it is being forced into the conversation. I was alone at the time I was approached by each of my Away salesmen.
For those of you that know me, what is it about me that attracts these people???
About a month back I got back from an extended driving trip on the East Coast and in the South. Here are some pics and a "brief" chronicling of my trip.
So I was having lunch today in little plaza in front of 101 California in the financial district (mmmm, Specialty’s…) when I was approached by this woman from CNET who was doing interviews about people and their cell phone usage. I talked to her for a bit so keep an eye out on CNBC for me and my nerdphone. Actually, they probably won’t broadcast me, I don’t think I gave her what she wanted to hear (someone who was concerned about the 911 people not being to be able to automatically know my location).
From today’s news – US to reject germ-warfare pact. It seems to me that dubya needs to spend less time telling the world to kiss his ass and more time coming up with an energy plan that at least tries to address the vicious cycle of fossil fuel use and global warming.
On a related note, do you realize that they already have made a movie out of dubya’s energy plan? It is called The Naked Gun 2½. The bad guys in the movie and dubya seem identical ideas when it comes to energy use. At least the good guys in the movie prevailed…
The thing that bothers me the most about the Chandra Levy case (aside from the fact that it is standard media carpet bombing of an issue where the big picture is lost in the day to day esotericies) is that way too much time is spent analyzing and obsessing over Gary Condit. According to the DC Police Department this case is still being considered a missing person’s case. This is not a criminal investigation. It is definitively incorrect to say that there are suspects in the case and until the DC police change their status, I really wish that people would lay off the daily fine-tooth analysis every time Gary Condit farts.
While it is fine (and expected) that the police will investigate all avenues in Chandra Levy’s disappearance, it is clear that "all avenues" don’t start and end with Gary Condit.
Having just quit my job 4 days prior, I found myself in India for a short time before the whole lot of us (Pappaji Esoofi and Mammaji Sofa and all their kids and all grand kids (minus one), 20 of us) shipped out to Bali for a week. Here we proceeded to have one of the best vacations that I have ever been on. What a way to kick off unemployment!
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