Post by tusti on Jul 16, 2006 11:40:40 GMT -5
Smooth Talkin Cajun
>>
>>Boudreaux, the smoothest-talking Cajun in the Louisiana National Guard,
>>got
>>called up to active duty one day. Boudreaux's first assignment was to a
>>military induction center, and because he was a good talker they assigned
>>him the duty of advising new recruits about government benefits,
>>especially
>>the GI insurance to which they were entitled. Before long, the Captain in
>>charge of the induction center began noticing that Boudreaux was getting a
>>99% sign-up rate for the more expensive supplemental form of GI insurance.
>>This was odd, because it would cost these low-income recruits $30 per
>>month
>>more for the higher coverage, compared to what the government was already
>>providing at no charge.
>>
>>The Captain decided that he would not ask Boudreaux directly about his
>>selling techniques, but instead he would sit in the back of the room at
>>the
>>next briefing and observe Boudreaux's sales pitch. Boudreaux stood up
>>before
>>the latest group of inductees and said, "If you has da normal GI insurans
>>an' you goes to Iraq an' gets youself killed, da governmen' pays you
>>beneficiary $20,000. If you takes out da supplemental insurans, which cost
>>you only t'irty dollars a mons, den da the governmen' gots ta pay you
>>beneficiary $200,000!"
>>
>>"NOW," Boudreaux concluded, "which bunch you tink dey gonna send ta Iraq
>>first?
>>
>>
>>Boudreaux, the smoothest-talking Cajun in the Louisiana National Guard,
>>got
>>called up to active duty one day. Boudreaux's first assignment was to a
>>military induction center, and because he was a good talker they assigned
>>him the duty of advising new recruits about government benefits,
>>especially
>>the GI insurance to which they were entitled. Before long, the Captain in
>>charge of the induction center began noticing that Boudreaux was getting a
>>99% sign-up rate for the more expensive supplemental form of GI insurance.
>>This was odd, because it would cost these low-income recruits $30 per
>>month
>>more for the higher coverage, compared to what the government was already
>>providing at no charge.
>>
>>The Captain decided that he would not ask Boudreaux directly about his
>>selling techniques, but instead he would sit in the back of the room at
>>the
>>next briefing and observe Boudreaux's sales pitch. Boudreaux stood up
>>before
>>the latest group of inductees and said, "If you has da normal GI insurans
>>an' you goes to Iraq an' gets youself killed, da governmen' pays you
>>beneficiary $20,000. If you takes out da supplemental insurans, which cost
>>you only t'irty dollars a mons, den da the governmen' gots ta pay you
>>beneficiary $200,000!"
>>
>>"NOW," Boudreaux concluded, "which bunch you tink dey gonna send ta Iraq
>>first?
>>
