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I wasn’t planning to buy a new motorcycle when I walked into Doug Douglas Motorcycles in 2006 and saw the one that would become mine.\u00a0 But none other than old Doug Douglas himself noticed how I reacted to it.\u00a0 Doug knew his business, and he told me he’d sell it to me for whatever the number was, which seemed like a reasonable deal.\u00a0 Reasonable, however, was not the adjective that was governing my thought process when I saw that motorcycle, and Doug recognized that.\u00a0 I gave Doug the only response I could think of at the time, which was:\u00a0 I’ll take it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Sue hit the roof when I came home and told her she needed to give me a ride back to Doug’s to pick up a new motorcycle.\u00a0 She stayed upset longer than usual when I told her how much it cost and that I would be taking the money out of the checking account.\u00a0 “What happened to the money you got from selling your Suzuki?” she demanded.\u00a0 It was more of an accusation then a question.<\/p>\n I had to think for a minute, and then I remembered.\u00a0 “That mother-of-pearl and onyx bracelet I bought for you…I used the money I got for the TL to buy it” I said, and Susie mellowed.\u00a0 Visibly.\u00a0 It was like de-arming an IED.\u00a0\u00a0“Oh,” was all she said, and then she was her usual cheery self.<\/p>\n When we arrived at Douglas Motorcycles, the tempest was over.\u00a0 I introduced Susie to Doug and she said, “You must be the world’s greatest motorcycle salesman…my husband told me he took your first offer, and he never does that…”<\/p>\n Doug smiled.\u00a0 “Oh, I’ve sold a few motorcycles,” he said, “but that’s not my real strength.\u00a0 My real strength is furniture.\u00a0 I am the world’s greatest furniture salesman.”<\/p>\n Sue was perplexed, as was I.\u00a0 Had I missed something?\u00a0 Did Doug Douglas Motorcycles have another wing that sold furniture?<\/p>\n “Yeah,” Doug continued, “there are a lot of couples who bought new bedroom furniture and new dining room sets when the husband came home and told the wife he bought a new motorcycle from me…”<\/p>\n Riding Baja?\u00a0 Insure with the best<\/a>.\u00a0 We always do.<\/p>\n Never miss an ExNotes blog:<\/p>\n More Baja adventures<\/a>?\u00a0 You bet<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Joe Berk I’ve always loved Triumphs and I always thought they were not only the coolest bikes around but also the best bang for the buck.\u00a0 I rode Triumphs in the ’60s and ’70s when they were air-cooled and I rode them when they were made by Hinckley.\u00a0 I always thought the ’65 Bonneville … Continue reading “The World’s Greatest Furniture Salesman”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,96],"tags":[3,3317,115,3307],"class_list":["post-20844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baja","category-feel-good-stuff","tag-baja","tag-caspian-blue","tag-doug-douglas-motorcycles","tag-triumph-tiger"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC_1987-900-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20844"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20856,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20844\/revisions\/20856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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