Thursday, June 21, 2007

Demos are always bewitched

This happened to my cousin who works for a finance company with a large customer base in rural India. He works in marketing department. One of the Directors had come down to his office. After some usual office meetings had asked for a demo of how they market the products on the field.

He had taken the director to a nearby village and having him aside he approached the nearby elderly man in his sixties. He introduced himself as a person working for this company and had started marketing the companies product. All the while, the elderly man had kept nodding his head.

After some 5-6 minutes of this campaign, the elderly man has said, "My child, I see that you want to tell something to me, but my left ear does not hear properly, can you come over to my right and explain it."

My cousin still gets a good laugh from everyone over this demo embarrassment before his marketing director.

Matrimony website - prospective Alliance's reply

I got this reply while searching alliances for my sister in one of these matrimony websites. Don't miss to read what bridegroom's parents are searching for(an NRI). You will immediately appreciate his urgency on the last line.




Hi,

I saw your msg happy, pls send your sister photo horscope and adress details now i am in india, my parents now searching aliens. pls send imediatly.

Thanking

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Monday, June 18, 2007

How does a newborn look like???

Recently I was at my friends house to see her new-born(just a month old).

On the question of how does the baby look like? I replied, "I never had a clue on how people could tell resemblance of the baby with either of parents at such a young stage of their growth".

Uncle in their house replied, "neither can most people, just that they say it with all confidence that baby looks like mum/dad/grand-relations etc. Best answer on this question we have heard so far, is from one of our relations on her grand-kid."
On this question, she had replied "Top half (above hips) looks like mom, bottom half looks like Dad of the kid."