The man said, ever so carefully, “I would
like to buy a new camera. Maybe one with
interchangeable lenses. That seems a
nice feature.”
But he actually wanted to say he was
angry because his wife of thirty-two years recently left him for a younger
man who permanently wore the tattoo of a snake twining up his right arm.
He wanted to say he had purposely picked
up cats the wrong way for his whole life; that the scent of roses made him
nauseous; that he felt cheated every time snow fell in September. But he knew from experience that you cannot
say what you really think and expect the average salesperson to understand.
-- Mitchell
Hegman
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