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A Slight
Misunderstanding a
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recently got one of those little black cars-you know, the sort
everybody else suddenly
seems to have the same idea.
- everybody else has. I do not know why it is, but whatever carga,
Do the first two sentences tell us what
misunderstanding to expect in the story?
some
fish and
the address of a farm on the other side
of the town-you know about seven
miles back in the wrong direction.
Well, of course, I saw what bad
happened—it was entirely my fault
for not locking the car up; but none
of us does it here. It is bad enough
having to stop at about fourteen
different shops, withour dropping
the car keys each time.
And what had happened was that whoever owned the dog bad goc fed
up with taking him around and had put him in the car tout
Only of course, they had put him in my car and not theirs. And I could
not quite decide what to do about it. For one thing I was supposed
to be back with the fish at one odock and if I cook the dog bome be
would not get on terribly well with my dog. On the other hand, if I
took him back and handed him in to the police station, there would be
all those forms to fill in and affidavits to swer and all that
all the thing
What's the problem with parking in
Anyway, I drove into my
nearby shopping centre the other Saturday to get
groceries and dry-cleaning and all that sort of thing. It is terrible
absolutely terrible shopping in that town; ten thousand cars and no
a space to park except the entrance to the fire station. However
, on this
particular morning I got through in record time and I
put
in the boot and drove back home.
of the entrance to the fire station
I was just about halfway there
when a rather starting thing happened. I found I was being licked
on the back of the neck by a dog. Of course, if you are a dog-owner,
Say
what is startling about that and I quite agree. But it just so
happened that I had not taken my dog with me.
So I stopped the car and had a look in the back and there was this
dog-a complete stranger to me-with his tongue hanging out,
all ready for another go. And I said, "Hello, whose doggie are you?"
but he did not answer and then I saw he had got his name on his collar-
Arthur. Prerry silly name for a dog, I must say;
and there was
FOU W7
I opened the cubbyhole to see if I had gor any chewing gum to help
think and I had not. What I had goc was a rather nice womans
handbag, that I had never seen in my life before with all the usual
objects in it-practically everything bur chewing gum. By this time,
I needed it worse than ever because of course, the situation bad raken
on a new twist. It was no longer a question of What does twist mean
the dog being in my car. I was in the dogs. in this sentence
boot space at the back of a car, used for carrying bags
startling: sudden and surprising
got attempt to do something
affidavits: written statements made after officially promisingto tell
the truth
cubbyhole a small storage space in the front of a car, used for keeping
small things
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