An Important Call
Soonafterdave left college, one of his uncles, who was rich and had no children of his own, died and left Dave a lot of money, so he decided to set up his own real estate agency.
He found a nice office, bought some furniture and moved in. He had only beenthere for a few hours when he heard someone coming towards the door of his office. ‘It’s my first custyomer!” he thought. He quickly picked up the telephone and pretended to be very busy answering an important call from someone in New York who wanted to busy a big and expensive house in the country.
The man knocked at the door while this was going on, came in and waited polotely for the agent to finish his conversation. Then he said to him, “I’m from the telephone company, and I was sent here to connect your telephone.”
一個重要的電話
達夫大學畢業沒多久，她的一個叔叔便去世了。由于這個叔叔非常富有而又無兒無女，所以留了一大筆遺產給達夫，達夫也因此打算開辦自己的房地產公司。
他找了一個不錯的辦公地點，買了幾件新家具后便搬了進去。幾小時后，他聽到門外有人正朝著他的辦公室走來。
“這是我的第一名顧客！”他暗自想。接著他迅速地拿起電話。假裝自己正忙著一個非常重要的電話，他還故意透露同對方是從紐約打來的，想在鄉下買一棟又大又豪華的房子。
那個人敲門進來之后，達夫便開始按照自己事先想的那樣演起戲來，來訪者也十分有禮貌的等候著他。達夫結束了這實際上根本不存在的電話之后，那個人對達夫說：“我是電話公司的，來為您接通電話線。”
