While working as a mall Santa, I had many children ask for electric trains. “If you get a train,” I would tell each one, “your dad is going to play with it too. Is that okay?” The usual answer was a quick yes. But after I asked one boy this question, he became very quiet. Trying to move the conversation along, I asked what else he would like Santa to bring him. He promptly replied, “Another train.”
我在商場里扮演圣誕老人,許多孩子都跟我要電動火車。我會對他們說:“如果你拿到小火車,你爸爸也要玩。這樣行不行?”通常孩子們都很快回答說行。可是,有一個男孩,我問他以后他好久都不說話。為了使對話不冷場,我又問他還想要圣誕老人帶什么東西給他。他馬上回答說:“另外一輛火車。”