« Murph Diving | Main | That email thing: An Apology of Sorts »
March 17, 2004
Getting a tax write-off
By QBlog in
I admit it. I'm not a salesman. Never claimed to be one. I don't have the right personality or something. Maybe if I were a salesman I would have thought the whole "sign this so I can claim this trip on my taxes" thing as quite normal.
I know, it's not specific to Quixtar, most salesmen have to do it but I just felt uncomfortable asking my family or friends to "see the plan" so we could claim some trip on our taxes. Ok, actually it was my wife doing the plan but I was right there with her, smiling and nodding but feeling really... weird.
And yes, we did show them the plan. And no, none of them signed up. We just did that a few times. Travelled to places to show the plan. People at our destination not really understanding exactly why we were there until they saw the Dry Erase board, and the tripod, and the notebooks and the circles. Those blessed circles. Then the polite, "no thank you, I'm just not interested" which was answered by our smiling faces. And the knowledge that THIS trip was business. And we could claim it on our taxes.