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Show SELLING YOURSELF AN AUTOMOBILE James Montgomery Flagg writes an amusing sketch about buying an automobile In the January American Magazine. Following Is an extract: "You and Polly aro given a demonstration. demon-stration. "The psychology of the trade start psyching at the moment you take your seat In the car. The Instant the wheels turn you are a gonor! "You are now the best salesman they havol You sell yourself tho carl You root for that car as It It were something you had Invented yourself. your-self. "An awful clattering underneath ydur feet, that In' later years of experience ex-perience would clearly Indlcato fraz zled bearings, you are now eager to have explained away as nothing but the sweet purr of perfect mechanism "You sit on th edge of tho Beat! L nerves taut, Inwardly challenging these men to say anything nasty II about their own goods. Their own' li Yours! n "You clutch tho leather arm rests I with the fierce Joy of ownership, ftn(i J cry Gee some boat- I "We could a-don that hill just as I easy: on high) grins the wicked de- i monstrator as he looks around for ji your approval. vj "p "When can I havo It? you hiss, j hardly recognizing your own voice, I "By the way, says the salesman, doubtfully, to th wicked demonstrator, demonstra-tor, this car Isn't sold, Is It? "Oh no It's all right I was thinking think-ing of that 1911 runabout of Johnson'sno, John-son'sno, It's alt right) f "You nearly swallowed your Ad- I am's apple." 1 |