walking around the counter and licking the glass-fronted display cabinet.
“But I have to have a keyboard. You do understand that?” The young man sighs deeply, as if patiently counting to ten.
“Okay. I understand. In that case I don’t think you should go for this computer. I think you should buy something like a MacBook instead.”
“A McBook?” Ove says, far from convinced. “Is that one of those blessed ‘eReaders’ everyone’s talking about?”
“No. A MacBook is a... it’s a... laptop, with a keyboard.”
“Okay!” Ove hisses. He looks around the shop for a moment. “So are they any good, then?”
The sales assistant looks down at the counter in a way that seems to reveal a fiercely yet barely controlled desire to begin clawing his own face.
Then he suddenly brightens, flashing an energetic smile.
“You know what? Let me see if my colleague has finished with his customer, so he can come and give you a demonstration.”
Ove checks his watch and grudgingly agrees, reminding the assistant that some people have better things to do than stand around all day waiting.
The assistant gives him a quick nod, then disappears and comes back after a few moments with a colleague.
The colleague looks very happy, as people do when they have not been working for a sufficient stretch of time as sales assistants.
전체재생
다음페이지
문장검색