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One bright day, Chris is strolling the streets of the Financial District, medical equipment in hand, when he gets the fateful idea to apply for an internship at the Dean Witter stock brokerage firm. What inspires him to make this bold move?
Answer: He sees a stockbroker parking a luxurious red convertible.
The stockbroker parks his glorious car right as Chris is walking by. Struck by the vehicle's sheer opulence, the medical salesman turns around and asks the driver: "I have two questions for you. What do you do, and how do you do it?" The stockbroker explains briefly, Chris starts thinking, and pretty soon he's persuaded himself he can do it.
He soon finds out about Dean Witter's internship program, fills out an application, and sets about trying to charm the internship director so that he'll see beyond the fact that Chris has only a high school education. Sadly, his new plan does not go over well at home. "From salesman to intern?" Linda asks. "That's backwards!" This is the last blow their marriage can take; she makes plans to leave him.