Hans Stuck's favourite joke on Radio Le Mans - 2007
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Radio Le Mans's coverage of the 2007 race included an interview with legendary driver Hans Stuck, which I believe was recorded at the N24 race a few days earlier. Having talked the usual racing driver stuff with Stuck (including the factoid that Stuck apparently has an honourary BRDC racing licence in the UK in recognition of his achievements, despite still having to pay for his German race licence) they finished the interview by asking Hans to fill the last minute or so before the break by telling his favourite joke.
I'm posting this, partly because it was a funny joke, partly because it was part of the Le Mans coverage, but mostly because I still can't quite believe the joke that Hans Stuck, winner of Le Mans, racing legend, and someone I've watched race since childhood came out with. It went something like this... (imagine this being told in a German accent too)
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This man is a shopkeeper and he has a grocery shop. Now his son is 14 years old and the shopkeeper decides it's time for his son to start learning the business and so takes him into his shop one morning and sits him behind the counter.
"Now watch how I do this' says the shopkeeper. "It's important for you to learn what the customer wants and see if you can also sell him something else on top which he probably needs but has forgotton to ask for. That way we can make some more money". At that moment a lady walks into the shop and asks for some washing up liquid. As she goes to pay the shopkeeper asks "since you are buying the washing up liquid can I ask if you need any window cleaner as well?"
"Sure that would be good" says the lady and so she proceeds to buy a bottle of window cleaner as well.
After the customer has left, the shopkeeper asks his son if he thinks he's got the idea... He tells the son "see what I did, since the lady wanted washing liquid I thought she might need to clean her windows as well and so I sold her the window cleaner"
"sure that sounds easy" says the son, and so the shopkeeper steps aside and tells his son to serve the next customer. At that moment another lady walks into the shop, approaches the counter and asks for a box of tampons.
"Sure" says the son confidently, and then seemingly without hesitation asks "would you like a bottle of window cleaner with that?" The lady thinks for a second, and then agrees to buy a bottle of window cleaner as well and leaves the shop having bought that too.
Afterwards the shopkeeper is a little confused and asks his son why it was that he thought of window cleaner as an upsell to the box of tampons.
"Well" says the son "I figured that if she's on her period she won't be doing any shagging and so she'll probably have time to clean her windows..."
THE END
I'm posting this, partly because it was a funny joke, partly because it was part of the Le Mans coverage, but mostly because I still can't quite believe the joke that Hans Stuck, winner of Le Mans, racing legend, and someone I've watched race since childhood came out with. It went something like this... (imagine this being told in a German accent too)
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This man is a shopkeeper and he has a grocery shop. Now his son is 14 years old and the shopkeeper decides it's time for his son to start learning the business and so takes him into his shop one morning and sits him behind the counter.
"Now watch how I do this' says the shopkeeper. "It's important for you to learn what the customer wants and see if you can also sell him something else on top which he probably needs but has forgotton to ask for. That way we can make some more money". At that moment a lady walks into the shop and asks for some washing up liquid. As she goes to pay the shopkeeper asks "since you are buying the washing up liquid can I ask if you need any window cleaner as well?"
"Sure that would be good" says the lady and so she proceeds to buy a bottle of window cleaner as well.
After the customer has left, the shopkeeper asks his son if he thinks he's got the idea... He tells the son "see what I did, since the lady wanted washing liquid I thought she might need to clean her windows as well and so I sold her the window cleaner"
"sure that sounds easy" says the son, and so the shopkeeper steps aside and tells his son to serve the next customer. At that moment another lady walks into the shop, approaches the counter and asks for a box of tampons.
"Sure" says the son confidently, and then seemingly without hesitation asks "would you like a bottle of window cleaner with that?" The lady thinks for a second, and then agrees to buy a bottle of window cleaner as well and leaves the shop having bought that too.
Afterwards the shopkeeper is a little confused and asks his son why it was that he thought of window cleaner as an upsell to the box of tampons.
"Well" says the son "I figured that if she's on her period she won't be doing any shagging and so she'll probably have time to clean her windows..."
THE END
Edited by corozin on Thursday 12th July 22:59
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