When Dave was eighteen, he bought a second-hand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work morethan by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing himmuch in repairs that he decided that he had betterit. He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularlyto buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, soof them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he waswhen they met one evening, and said, “What's, Dave?” Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You maymore for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam'swas sensible(合理的),he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car,very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.” For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no.But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry(询问).A man rang up and said he would like tohim about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would beor not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I'llmy wife. We intend to go for a ride in it toit.” The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, to wait there for the people who hadhis advertisement. Even Dave had tothat the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as cleanit could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave's car and then said, “Have you reported thisto us yet, sir?”