Selling a clinker

Explaining a boat sale…

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Gump: It just got a bit heavy to launch.

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Bro: I mean, you’re 70 now, so sooner or later you’re going end up slipping a disk or tearing a back muscle lifting a one and a half ton boat trailer.

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Gump: I am NOT 70. I’m 69.

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Bro: I hear the fisherman who built your boat had his workshop gutted by a fire. Maybe you could share the profits of the sale with him.

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Gump: A fire? That’s too bad. OK, I’ll give Malcolm half the proceeds.

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Voice-over

A feel-good story. A rally-round of people who had bought your boats contributing to building you a new workshop…  “If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.” Warren Buffett.

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Blue cod

Maureen asks the fishmonger for blue cod.
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Maureen: I need four pieces.

Fishmonger: Sorry lady. Only got one piece left.

Maureen: But I’m having three guests. I need four pieces.

Fishmonger: Only got one piece left. How about one piece of blue cod, and three pieces of snapper? You eat the blue cod, and give the guests snapper. You know what I mean? (winks)

Maureen: I couldn’t do that. It’s not fair.

Fishmonger: Wait a moment. (Goes out the back and returns with a whole cod). I was saving this for my brother. But good luck for you.

Maureen: I … I don’t know what to say.
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Voiceover

Maureen, finding pleading actually works with this gruff Croatian fishmonger, is at a loss for words. Primed for disappointment can make us stumble digging up gratitude phrases.
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