107 Leave the color 把彩色留下
Years ago, people rented phones from the telephone company. If you pay a one-time fee, you can have a color model. One customer, who had had his phone for some time, forgot how this worked. When I was disconnecting his service, he objected to my leaving with his phone. “That's mine,” he said angrily. “I paid for it.” “No, sir, you paid for the color, not the phone,” I explained. “Okay, take the phone,” he said calmly, “but leave the color.”
多年以前,人們是從電話公司租用電話機。你如果付一筆一次性的費用,還可以租到一臺彩色的電話機。有一個顧客,他用電話已經(jīng)很久,忘記當(dāng)時是怎么回事了。當(dāng)我去給他拆線的時候,他反對我把電話機拿走。他生氣地說:“這是我的電話機,我付了錢的。”我向他解釋說:“先生,不是這樣。你付的是彩色的錢,而不是電話機的錢。”他平靜地說:“那好吧。把電話機拿走,把彩色留下。”