Question 34
MediumOriginal questionCustomer: Good morning. I bought this phone charger here on Saturday. It doesn't work.
Shopkeeper: Doesn't work? It's a good brand. Did you plug it in properly?
Customer: I plugged it in at home, at my office and at my sister's house. Three different . The phone shows nothing.
Shopkeeper: Maybe the problem is your phone.
Customer: I thought of that. So I tried my phone with my sister's charger. It charged in an hour. Then I tried her phone with this charger. Nothing.
Shopkeeper: (looking at the charger) Hmm. Do you have the ?
Customer: Here. Saturday, the fourteenth. Four hundred and fifty rupees.
Shopkeeper: The box?
Customer: Here. I kept it, just in case.
Shopkeeper: (smiling) You came . All right. I'll test it myself. (He plugs it in.) You're right, it's dead. I can give you a new one of the same kind, or you can choose another and pay the .
Customer: The same kind is fine. But could you test the new one before I go?
Shopkeeper: Of course. After what you've told me, I'd test it twice.
"You came prepared," the shopkeeper says. He means that she
Show the answer and explanation
Correct answer: D
Explanation
She had tested the charger carefully and brought the bill and the box.
Worth noting
The remark is made while "smiling", as a compliment.
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