5.Three Jokes
5 Three Jokes
Joke 1
Co-workers sympathized with my mother when she complained that her back was really painful from moving furniture. "Why don't you wait till your husband gets home? " someone asked. "I could," my mother told the group, "but the couch is easier to move if he's not on it."
Joke 2
A fourth grader asked the teacher's assistant, "how old are you, Mrs. Glass? " "You should never ask an adult's age," I broke in. "That's okay." Harriett smiled. "I'm fifty." "Wow, you don't look that old," the boy said. I was about to breathe a sigh of relief when another child chimed in, "Parts of her do."
Joke 3
My elderly neighbour and his wife were told there could be a 45-minute wait for a table at a popular restaurant as they had no reservations. "Young man, we're both 90 years old," he told the waiter, "we may not have 45 minutes." They were seated immediately.
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