どうも、コウです。
Facebookをけっこうやってます。
仕事柄、外国の友達が多いので、英語を始め多言語の投稿を毎日見てますが、「お、これ面白い！」、「え、マジ？」といった感情を抱くようなものもけっこうあります。
せっかくなので、英語を勉強している人、英語が好きでたくさん触れたいなぁと思ってる人にも、そういったものに触れてほしいと思い、不定期ですが、個人的にググッと来たものをシェアしていこうと思います。
「ネット上に転がってる Wow! と思うような、感情を動かされるような話を英語でお届けします☆」
的な企画です。
第一弾は以下のストーリーです。
An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the top of her lungs, “I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!”.
The four men didn’t wait for a second threat. They got out and ran like mad.
The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the driver’s seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried, and then she realized why. It was for the same reason she had wondered why there was a football, a Frisbee and two 12-packs of beer in the front seat.
A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down. She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her mistake.
The sergeant to whom she told the story couldn’t stop laughing. He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a car jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun.
No charges were filed.
The moral of the story? If you’re going to have a senior moment… make it memorable.
いかがでしたか？
出典を確認し忘れましたが、個人的には実話なような気がしますねぇ。
とりあえず「死人が出なくてよかった、、」
では、また近いうちに！
