Thirty years ago I supported a large city construction department. When any of the guys needed to have work done on their personal cars, and were in a hurry, they’d have me take them in to the dealership or repair shop. The car was immediately put to the very head of the line. (Wouldn’t happen now - LOL.)
Charm, particularly sexual charm, is an extremely powerful tool in the right (or...wrong) hands.
I am often surprised (and gratefully suprised) that many women (though not all, too be sure!) do not fully understand and exploit this silly Machiavellian dynamic! (Thank goodness for the male species)
I have long suspected that is one of the reasons for the often heard saw that females (especially attractive ones) are superior espionage agents...I fully believe that!
In the medical field, I have seen this in action so many times that my wife, who is also in the field, laugh at it when we see it.
When the various drug/equipment/supply vendors come in, the men are often reasonably young and ruggedly handsome, in their dark blue pinstriped suits, and they appeal to the females for patronage of the product, and they seem to know which female subjects to avoid, and which ones to make a beeline to! If they have to deal with guys, they seem to shift gears and turn on the guy-to-guy dynamic at the flick of a switch!
The female vendor reps, wearing their heels at the ends of their attractive legs, covered by the female equivalent of the blue pinstriped suit with a dress that is short, but usually just a little bit not TOO short (as close to the line of impropriety as they can get!) can have a male doctor eating out of their hand in no time. Literally, feeding the savage beasts by hand! Granted, not in all cases, but...sexual charm is a powerful thing indeed.
In both cases, the vendors have their rolling bags with them...the stereotype can be hilarious to watch if you are in the know. My wife and I watched a movie one night called Love and Other Drugs, and we both nearly died laughing...at least for the first part of the movie. (We both thought the movie would be a comedy classic, until it changed in midstream to a depressing, cancer-life-ending drama. That part destroyed the movie, but...the first part was hilarious!) In it, we recognized ALL the true stereotypes...just really funny! (the movie was about the discovery and introduction of the drug Viagra, shot from a perspective of the pharmaceutical industry!)