Dave's First Customer

Soon after Dave 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 （房地产） agency（经销所）. 

He found a nice office, bought some new furniture, and moved in. One day, he had only been there for a few hours when he heard someone coming towards the door of his office.

"It's my first customer! " he thought. He quickly picked up the telephone and pretended （假装）to be very busy answering an important call from someone in New York who wanted to buy a big and expensive house in the country. 

The man knocked at the door while this was going on, then he came in and waited politely 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. 

选自《世界幽默故事精选》湖南大学出版社