When I was in high school I worked at a CD Warehouse with a friend of mine. Our boss was a man named John and he worked out a deal for CD Warehouse to sell concert tickets. The first concert we were to sell tickets for was Enrique Iglesias. This was back when Enrique was only popular amongst Hispanic people.
The first day that we had Enrique tickets was insane. Not since the Alamo, have so few Texans been surrounded by so many Mexicans. We started answering the phone, “Thanks for calling Enrique Warehouse.” The tickets were moving like hotcakes and the phone kept ringing with people who had questions about Enrique. Finally, on one call John picked up the phone and said, “Oh yeah, actually, Enrique is here right now, but only for the next five minutes. You better hurry.” My friend and I just started laughing. We laughed even harder when about four minutes later we got another rush of customers. We were inspired by John’s trick. After that day, when someone would sporadically come in for tickets, we would tell them that Enrique had placed a very special CD display on our counter for his new album, himself. They would get all giddy as they found out that Enrique had touched those very CD’s. They sold at the speed of light. We even had an autographed copy of Enrique’s newest album that was too valuable to John for him to sell it (It was John’s signature).
So, when I am denied entry at the pearly gates everyone will know why.
