Values: Triumph

When Miss Gaby asked me to write a story in which we had triumphed and that we made a lot of effort to achieve it, I instantly thought of the time I worked in Fetiche, a store that sells perfumes. I worked in my vacations of last year as a salesman. First, everything was very difficult for me, because it was a totally new thing which in my entire life I have never done it. So, as I started to get used, I proposed myself to be the best salesman of the store. I was so in to it that while my working mates where playing and not doing their job, I was or learning prices or selling to costumers. The competition was tough the whole time I was in Fetiche, because there were about three working mates that wanted to reach the same goal as me, and they were wining. I remember that one day I thought that maybe I could not do it, that it was too difficult for me achieving my goal, but suddenly I realized that even when I did not achieved my goal, the more I sold the more money I would get and the better salesman I would be. So from that day on, I started to work even harder. I remember that one day a person came into the store and I was the first to attend him. He brought all his family, about seven members, and I thought that, since they were so many, the perfumes I was about to sell were going to be very cheap. As many times happen in life, intuition fails and the total opposite happens. This man, who looked of not much money, was buying as crazy. He told me to help choosing each of his family members a perfume and so they choose some perfumes. As he saw the perfumes, I told him that each time he bought the big perfume, he got a prize. So he told me that every time a family member chooses a perfume, he wanted the big one, this left me astonished because each costs like about Q. 800 and it is very difficult to sell those. Each of the family member choose a big perfume, the only person who choose more than one was what seemed his girlfriend. She chose about three big perfumes. When I came to the cash register, I was sure this would be the biggest sale of all my working time in here. When the clerk finished charging the perfumes, the total amount was of about Q. 8,000. Every one of my working mates was astonished and congratulated me because every single perfume was of our goal perfumes, which were an amount of specifically perfumes which we had to sale so that our payment in the end duplicated. I remember that three days before the bazaar was over there was this boy who always sold more than me and was wining me by about Q. 10,000. I could never sell as much as he sold and I do not even know why. I remember that he did not came to work the last three days of work and now I still had hope of winning. Now it was the last day of work for me and this was the day in which more people came to the store. So I was totally prepared to sell the most because, even though my number one enemy was out of combat, there was this girl who had like Q. 2000 more than me, and I was sure I could win her. So that last day I sold about Q. 30,000 and at the end I was the best salesman of the store.