Know the odds are pretty good....dont understand the meaning of it? "There's a tremendous resistance to the door-to-door sales- man, as anyone who has ever sold house to house knows," he commented. 'i\nd it's hard, even for the veteran salesman, to make that first call in the morning. He knows the odds are pretty good that he'll get some pretty rough treatment before the day is over. So it's natural for him to put off getting started in the morn- ing. He'll drink a couple of extra cups of coffee, maybe cruise around the neighborhood awhile 01' do a dozen little things to postpone that first call.