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The Perfect Pitch

By W. Grant Eppler

It happens often in major league baseball, but I never expected to see it at 8:45 a.m. Las Vegas time. My friends and I were there to watch NCAA basketball, and after a long first night on the town, I awoke to find I had grossly underpacked. Up “early,” wandering the labyrinth of the mall looking for an open clothing store, I walked into the perfect pitch.
    “Sir, if you take off your watch I’ll clean it for you,” the voice said. It repeated again before I noted the source; admittedly, I was moving rather slowly. From within her kiosk, she waited for my response. Again, now for the third time, she said, “Sir, if you’ll take off your watch, I’ll clean it for you.”
    Laden with a hangover of epic proportions and armed with only a double-short-squatty-mocha and the wicked dry humor of a boys’ weekend in Las Vegas, I boomed a worthy reply. In my best Mike Meyers’ affected Scottish brogue I bellowed, “Woman, I taketh off my time piece forrr no one, especially a women in the trrrades.”
    “Well, how ’bout yourr rring then,” she replied slightly mimicking my brogue, rolling her “r’s” just enough to not mock me, but to let me know she was a player. She literally reeled me in, from 20 feet out, with her ability to adapt her sales pitch, “Com’on,” she prompted.

A Creative and Adaptable Pitch Earns an Audience
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