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a professional shower curtain ring seller?


What kind of job was this? Has there ever been anybody in history who seriously made a living by traveling across the USA selling shower curtain rings?

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I want to set the record straight. I happen to be a very successful shower curtain ring salesman operating in the Dubuque and environs area so, yes, we do exist! I hope, in fact, to start making enuf to get married before I turn 40. I find this thread to be very demeaning & upsetting.


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Are you currently courting a special lady? Congrats on your success, by the way.

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It's a comedy for pete's sake. It's not meant to be realistic. It's just a joke

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I grew up in NYC area during the late 1960's, early 1970's, we had salesman's come to our house all the time. We had a milkman salesman deliver bottles of milk, got our dry cleaning brought to us and I still remember the starch smell from my dad's shirts, we had an Entenmann's salesman come to the house three times a week. I remember their crumb cake was still warm. Had a Electrolux and Kirby vacuum salesman. We had a blinds salesman who came every now and then. We even had a traveling caged rides for us kids in the summers, which no parent said no to the salesman and operator as well as Good Humor man in his ice cream truck. But of these things stopped around 72 or 73 and eventually sold these things directly to Pathmark, Blue Jay's, King Kullen grocery stores. I remember my mom saving S&H green stamps, Montgomery Ward, Woolworth's, 5 & 10's, Han's Deli but no shower curtain rings salesman.

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It's part of the charm of Del's character. It works to a tee.

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This is absolutely a real job. Del is selling to the stores and the supermarkets and everywhere else that stocks these products.

Del isnt selling shower curtain rings to customers buying one set at a time for their house. There is no money in that. He would spend all day travelling around to sell $10 of product.

Just think about the process of making these rings. There is a factory somewhere cranking them out. They get delivered to stores. The customer buys them from the store and brings them home. Who organizes everything between step one and two? The factory has to get their product out there and sell it to stores.

If you opened a shower curtain ring factory tomorrow, who would you be selling these rings to? No one, unless you employed a guy to getout there and find stores that care to buy them at your price.

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I'd buy ALL my shower curtain rings from Del Griffith...

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This is an autographed Darryl Strawberry earring. These earrings are filled with helium, so their very light. Ever watch 60 minutes?

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Del just wanted a job where he could keep busy and meet people because he needed something to block out the pain of his wife’s death

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