I Tried To Sell A Bidet

I didn’t try to actually sell a bidet, I was selling my friend the idea of getting a bidet. As a man that is perturbed by fecal matter, I am always looking for ways to keep my buttocks clean. Now what happened?

My friend came over to my place to drop off some food, because he was near a specific restaurant that I like, I didn’t want to pay extra 50% for ubereats, I asked him to buy it and dropped it off at my place. When he came to deliver our food, I invited him to come in. He went and used our bathroom and when he was done, he came out the bathroom and asked, “what the hell is that?” while pointing at my bidet, and making a disgusted look on his face. I can tell he already hated the the device.

I told him it was a bidet. and he asked me why did I get one. I used the same argument any person with a bidet would use. The same old generic that Jordan Schlansky used for Conan O'Brien, “Oh, if you get feces on your arm, will you wipe it or wash it?”

He ignored me and and immediately call it stupid. I asked him why, and he just say it’s stupid. Then I ask for an explanation as to why it’s stupid. He said that “it’s dirty”. An answer that raises more question. I asked “why is it dirty?” Then he said, “I think it is and nothing you say make sense.” Now I’m irritated, I gave him a response that he did not respond to, and he seems hard stuck on a theory that makes no sense to me, because he couldn’t explain it. I then repeated the question, “If you get feces on your arm, will you wipe or wash it?” He look down and said, “washing is the same thing.”

Arrogance

This is what arrogance looks like. To alter the facts in order to make one’s belief accurate, in their own mind. This is the most common killer in business I have ever seen. I once helped my friend with her business, to sell print on demand socks. She has her favorite designs that she made, and some low effort one. We didn’t not expect that her low effort designs would be the higher selling one. I thought she would be an adult, and sell without discrimination. However she was frustrated that the designs she put a lot of effort into is not popular, so she put it on the first page of her website, and featured it, leaving the more popular design somewhere in the products category page. Gradually overtime her business failed because she wasn’t making enough sales and the Facebook ads ate her to nothing.

Key Takeaway

Don’t let your ego get in the way of your success.