3. Tommy Callahan Jr. recently graduated from college after seven years and returned home. His father, Big Tom Callahan, the owner of Callahan Motors, offers Tommy a job in the auto parts factory that makes brake pads. The factory is in severe danger of going under unless sales of the company’s new brake pads increase dramatically.

Tommy must go on the road with Richard (Big Tom’s right-hand man) in a last-ditch effort to save the company.

But Tommy proves to be unfocused, inexperienced, and lacking in confidence. Sales call after sales call he meets with rejection, even when the prospect looks promising.

Customers express some concern about a warranty on the brake pads, but Richard believes that Tommy’s inexperience and awkward approach are the big problems.