[AT] way off topic salesman

[H. L. Staples]

Selling Insurance to the Army 

Corporal Jones was assigned to the induction center, where he advised new
recruits about their government benefits, especially their GI insurance. It
wasn't long before Captain Smith noticed that corporal Jones was having a
staggeringly high success-rate, selling insurance to nearly 100% of the
recruits he advised. Rather than ask about this, the Captain stood in the
back of the room and listened to Jones' sales pitch. Jones explained the
basics of the GI Insurance to the new recruits, and then said: "If you have
GI Insurance and go into battle and are killed, the government has to pay
$250,000 to your beneficiaries. If you don't have GI insurance, and you go
into battle and get killed, the government only has to pay a maximum of $6
000. Now," he concluded, "which group do you think they are going to send
into battle first?" 
 
H. L. Staples
McLoud, Oklahoma 
USA