ONE UP
A salesman with a reputation for one- upsmanship — always having a snappy retort, never at a loss for words — was transferred from New York to their West Coast office. His new colleagues knew his reputation and decided to take him down a peg. They went to a farm that supplies exotic animals to motion picture companies and rented an old, gentle, toothless lion. While the salesman was out of his apartment, they led the lion in and made him lie down on the living room sofa. Then they went into the bedroom and waited with the door slightly ajar to witness his reactions. Soon the salesman arrived home. He walked in, saw the lion on the sofa, walked to the closet and hung up his jacket, then strolled to the door of the bedroom. He gave the door three businesslike raps and called out “Christians, five minutes!” On the Upbeat
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