Thread: The man who sold hot dogs...

I was reading a practice management book and this story was part of it...Let's see if you can catch onto the moral of the story....


There was a man who lived by the side of the road and sold hot dogs. He was hard of hearing, so he had no radio. He had trouble seeing so he had no newspapers. But he sold good hot dogs. He put up signs on the side of the highway telling how good they were. He stood by the side of the road and cried "Buy a hot dog, mister" and people bought...and bought often. He increased his meat and rolls orders. He bought a bigger stove to take care of his trade. He finally got his son to come home from college to help him out. But then something happened. His son said: "Father, haven't you been listening to the radio? There's a big depression coming on! The European situation is terrible. The dommestic situation is even worse!" That made the father think: "Well, my son has been to college, he reads the papers and he listens to the radio and he ought to know." So the father cut down on meat and roll orders, took down his advertsing signs and no longer bothered to stand on the side of the highway to sell his hot dogs. Sales fell fast almost overnight. "You're right son," the father said to the boy. "We certainly are in the middle of a great depression. There just isn't any business. No one even comes by anymore!"

Don't know who wrote it or when it is from (no one was credited with writing it), but it makes a lot of sense...

If you didn't catch the moral....check where your attitude and outlook is on life...

I wish that everyone in America would read that a couple of times over the weekend.