Poster campaign

The disappointed salesman of a soft drink company returns from his Middle East assignment. A friend asked, "Why weren't you successful in the Middle East with the new soft drink?" The salesman explained, "When I got the job in the Middle East, I was very confident that I will make a good sales pitch as Middle East is a good market for soft drinks. But, I had a problem I didn't know the Arabic language. Then, I planned to convey the message through three posters. The first poster was of a man crawling through the hot deserts, totally exhausted and panting. Second, the man is drinking our soft drink and third, the man is totally refreshed. We covered a wide area with this poster campaign". "That should have worked", said the friend. He replied, "Well, I didn't know Arabic, neither did I realise that Arabs read from right to left..."

Instructions

Emma is the world's worst at getting instructions mixed up.

One day her husband bought one of those fancy, electric coffee makers for her.

It had all the latest gadgets on it. Salesman Riley carefully explained how everything worked; how to plug it in and set the timer. Go back to bed, and upon rising, the coffee is ready, Riley said.

A few weeks later Emma was back in the store and Riley asked whether she liked the coffee maker. "Wonderful!" she replied, "However, there's one thing I don't understand.Why do I need to go to bed every time I want to make a pot of coffee?"

Sale shop

It was the day of the big sale. Rumours of the sale (and some advertising in the local paper) was the main reason for the long queue that formed by 8:30, the store's opening time, in front of the store.

A small man pushed his way to the front of the line, only to be pushed back, amidst loud curses. On the man's second attempt, he was punched square in the jaw, and knocked around a bit, and then thrown to the end of the line again.

As he got up, he said to the person at the end of the line, "That does it! If they hit me one more time, I won't open the store!"