In the summer vacation of 1997, I was fixed with a job.I worked as a(n) 1 at Mr.Breen’s fruit shop.The fruit shop did 2 business.Most of the trade came from the housewives who lived in the neighborhood, 3 he also had regular customers who arrived outside the shop in cars.Mr.Breen 4 them all by name and they sometimes even had their order already made up, always 5 me to carry it out to their car.They were clearly long-standing customers, and I 6 they must have stayed faithful to him 7 he had promised to sell good quality 8 .He had a way with them-I had to 9 that.He called every woman “madam” for a start, 10 those who clearly were not, but when he 11 it, it did not sound like flattery(奉承).It just sounded 12 in an old-fashioned way.He was a great chatter 13 .If he did not know them, he would greet them with a few 14 about the weather, 15 he did, he would ask about their families or make 16 , always cutting his cloth 17 his customers.Whatever their bills came to, he 18 gave them back the few odd pence(零钱),and I am sure they thought he was very generous.But I thought he was the opposite.He never 19 anything away.He was always looking for 20 for nothing.