Rebirth Of A Salesman

Unlike Arther Miller's play, the salesmen in the year 2007 are still alive and kicking. They no longer go door to door, but they still carry their travel cases and sample kits and drive over to make house calls.

This was the week of window estimates. I've seen a lot of windows and been fed so much technical information about vinyl welding, double pane, triple pane, Argon gasses, Krypton gasses, and what the standards for UV coating, bla bla bla bla bla..... And since these gases are clear and odorless, who would know that these so called energy efficient windows have Krypton in them, unless Superman was trying to break in.

All of the schpeal is actually quite boring and my eyes begin to glaze over after the first 10 minutes. We just want some windows, and anything is going to better than the 1930s single pane, cracked and rotting away framed windows we have, so we are easy customers.

We got three very different quotes, each $1000 different from each other, but the quality seem the same. The first salesperson who came to the house was actually a woman. The first woman I've dealt with in over a month, which was very refreshing. She looked like the typical lesbian gym teacher (short hair, golf shirt with company logo and buff) but was very efficient, knew her stuff and did not try to sell us anything we didn't need. We liked her the best out of the lot.