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(huà)公司租用電話(huà)機(jī)。你如果付一筆一次性的費(fèi)用,還可以租到一臺(tái)彩色的電話(huà)機(jī)。有一個(gè)顧客,他用電話(huà)已經(jīng)很久,忘記當(dāng)時(shí)是怎么回事了。當(dāng)我去給他拆線(xiàn)的時(shí)候,他反對(duì)我把電話(huà)機(jī)拿走。他生氣地說(shuō):“這是我的電話(huà)機(jī),我付了錢(qián)的。”我向他解釋說(shuō):“先生,不是這樣。你付的是彩色的錢(qián),而不是電話(huà)機(jī)的錢(qián)。”他平靜地說(shuō):“那好吧。把電話(huà)機(jī)拿走,把彩色留下。”