Slice and Dice!

Getting back to being Amway WWDB FED up at the Bren Center in Irvine after hanging out behind the scenes for a bit Joecool and I wandered around the halls and arena area mingling with other Amway distributors. Well not really mingling more like blending in and watching the show. Its really great and fantastic how these distributors are continuing to support those uplines waving at them from the stage and how they have they no doubt that in a couple of years they’ll be rich too and they’ll be on the stage speaking to everyone. That’s approximately 56% of distributors who get to the stage level. C’mon people try and get that through your heads! There’s more than enough room at the top of the pile for all of you!!! And the ones at the top really only want to share the wealth!

Tried to spend as much time inside the auditorium where we could see the speakers. All I heard was very encouraging and similar to what I heard a long time ago so we went back to the hall. Actually you couldn’t stay away from those distributors. I could hear them everywhere I went. Hear them sound happy and excited even if I could not really understand what they were saying.

We could not see enough. But enough to know that nothing good changes. Enough to hear some distributor from the stage tell a good story about how he worked at a gas station and his wife was a waitress and then some dear friend showed them the plan and then they got into “the business” and now they can buy anything they want. Fantastic. It never gets tired how many times that story is told but can those distributors tell it well. All the while mentioning the Amway word.

We stayed.

Went not too far away to get a cold drink. That would be soft drink not a real drink even though that wasn’t out of the question either it was just too early! I didn’t want to be too far away to not to run into any distributors. Trust me. A few blocks was far enough! There’s a bunch of Amway guys in there. We have arrived! And it was great to see one or two people taking a little break from all the excitement. The functions are fine and your upline is great company but a private chat with other distributors is something not to miss!

It was funny though! Some of the newbies are looking at us like hawks. Fresh meat! Joecool suggests we take a table near some of them so we can hear them. Mostly they’re talking about how to operate their businesses and what level they’re going to attain and joshing each other about their PV and how many downlines they’re going to sign up when they get home.

It takes about 3 minutes for a newbie to think of approaching us.

Tells me he likes my shirt and wants to know where I bought it. I don’t remember so I tell him Target. And just in case anyone is wondering there is nothing spectacular about my shirt. Its light blue with a v neck. Buy one just like it anywhere I’m sure. Then he asks where I work. Oh help. I’m getting hit with FORM. So I decide to have some fun. Ha ha! What else do you do with a newbie!

So I tell him we work at the Bren Events Center not too far away and we’re finally off shift and he wouldn’t believe what’s going on there. A bunch of hopeful people listening to the biggest opportunity I’ve ever seen in my life. He looks happy. Whether it’s at my body language or my describing the people he loves and understands I don’t know. He doesn’t know I’m teasing him yet!

So then he says wouldn’t you like not to have to go to work everyday. I say I’d like that but my boss would be really upset when he finds out I’m not going to work and I’ll probably lose my job. Then I tell him that both of us are interns on a get-back-to-work program as part of building new careers.

The guy looks nervous now that he realizes he’s talking to some real propects. But he’s curious and he asks me what I was qualified at. That’s was the question that made me laugh and concoct a crazy story.

I saw the movie Double Jeopardy not too long ago and inspiration strikes. I remember that scene where Ashley Judd is in the library and this guy is hitting on her and how she tells him she killed her husband so he’ll take off.

So I say worked a meat counter at Walmarts, slice and dice. That my husband and I were sailing near Santa Cruz Island and I accidently stuck him with a knife and had to call the medivac. The newbie looks shocked but before he can get away I point to Joecool and ask don’t you want to know what he used to do? The newbie loses nerve and says no and walks away from us. Whispers something to the other distributors and they all laugh.

Yeah we had a good laugh over that!

What else can you do with newbies if you’re feeling in a naughty mood! We were planning to go back on Sunday for awhile cause Joecool wanted to see what they’re doing in the Sunday morning worship session but something came up and I couldn’t go. And that got me thinking about all those distributors who couldn’t get to the training convention. If something had come up for any of them, an emergency, a special function, what have you to prevent them coming at least there will always be another FED to go to in the future. Whenever that day comes they will happy they got the chance to be at an Amway function.