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I Speak In Tongues!! (Yes, True!)

When I worked, selling furniture, much expensive, as a Store Manager/Salesman- (really, the "Manager" title was euphemistic)... It was easy to get bored.... You can sit in the showroom for some hours, And see no one at all... So when some poor person did come in... I tended to want to compensate.... Not for the customer, But, for me.... I had over time developed a talent.... To speak in accents a'plenty No one would know just what to expect.... To one, I might be cockney English to another a stiff old German or a Swede, Indian, Jackie Mason style Jewish, Oh Indian was a favorite of many... but I did more... An upper-class English Lord... a Brooklynese bable, a southern drawl... oh... so many more... Now sometimes I'd change from one to another in the same conversation' as it progressed; whether he bought or not to me secondary I had to have my fun!! Sometimes a customer would come back on a later day... looking for that Australian guy... who had helped them some days before... I made many many people laugh, many many a time I had many other crazy things I did You come into my store, you won't be bored nor pressured... one thing you can be assured.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2007




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Date: 8/3/2010 1:44:00 AM
got goosebumps! really good poem :)
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