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　　Saturday night is my favorite night. That's when my friends and me take our monthly bonus and go bowling to forget about our lives of bondage reviewing the latest booklets at the office. I wasn't braced,however,for the blunder that would happen last Friday night.

　　We pulled into the borough of our favorite alley and parked our cars peacefully. It wasn't one of those bourgeois neighborhoods with a coffee booth on every corner. We would boycott any bowling alley that sold designer coffee. Our place of recreation had to be near someplace dark and murky,like a bog in a forest.

　　I was just stepping out of my car when a truck came around out of nowhere. It almost hit me. Then a woman with a wedding dress came out of the truck and fell into my arms. When her bosom brushed my hands I blushed. She didn't notice and bent down to pick up the wedding bouquet she had just dropped.

　　I blurted out,“Just married?”

　　She looked up with blurry eyes, and while twirling the bracelet on her hand, bluntly replied. “No. I just robbed a bank and there's now a bounty on my head.”

　　I was bogged down thinking about how to reply when I felt my bowels rumbling. I was just getting over the flu and another bout was hitting me. I quickly ran away, more embarrassed than I had ever been in my life.

　　When I came out of the bathroom, however, she was standing there waiting for me.

　　“You're cute when you're sick. How about a drink?”

　　记单词

　　blunder n.(因无知、粗心等造成的)错误vi.1.跌跌撞撞地走，慌乱地走2.犯错误

　　blunt a.1.纯的2.率直的，直言不讳的vt.1.使迟钝，使减弱2.使钝

　　blurry a.模糊的，难辨认的

　　blurt vt.(out)脱口而出

　　blush vi./n.脸红

　　bog n.沼泽v.1.(down)(使)陷入困境2.(使)陷入泥沼

　　bondage n.1.奴役2.束缚

　　bonus n.1.奖金，红利2.额外给予的东西

　　booklet n.小册子

　　booth n.1.(隔开的)小房间，公用电话亭，岗亭2.售货棚，货摊

　　borough n.自治城镇，(大城市的)行政区

　　bosom n.1.胸部，乳房2.胸怀，内心

　　bounty n.1.(由政府提供的)奖金，赏金2.慷慨，大方

　　bouquet n.1.花束2.(酒的)芳香

　　bourgeois a.1.追求物质享受的2.中产阶级的3.资产阶级的n.1.追求物质享受的人2.中产阶级分子3.资产阶级分子

　　bout n.1.(疾病等的)侵袭，发作2.一次，一阵，一回3.拳击(或摔跤)比赛

　　bowel n.1.肠2.[pl.]内部，深处

　　bowling n.保龄球运动

　　boycott vt./n.(联合)抵制，拒绝参与

　　brace vt.1.使防备，使受锻炼2.支住，撑牢3.使绷紧n.支架，托架

　　bracelet n.手镯，臂镯

　　我最喜欢星期六的晚上。因为这个时候我和我的朋友们会拿着我们每个月的奖金去打保龄球，从而忘掉生活中的束缚，即在办公室审查的小册子。但是，那天晚上我一点也不觉得兴奋，因为星期五晚上我因粗心犯了一个错误。

　　我们把车开到了一个自治城镇，这里有我们最喜欢的保龄球馆，我们顺利地停好了车。那不是一个每个拐角处都有咖啡屋的追求物质享受的社区。只要保龄球馆卖强效咖啡我们就会抵制。我们的娱乐场所必须靠近某个漆黑、昏暗的地方，就像是森林里的沼泽一样。

　　我正从车里出来，这时一辆卡车不知从什么地方来了个急转弯，差点撞了我。然后一个穿着结婚礼服的女人从卡车里出来并倒在了我的怀里。我的手擦过她的胸部，我不禁脸红起来。她毫无察觉，只顾弯腰去捡刚才弄掉的结婚用的花束。

　　我脱口说道：“刚结婚吗?”

　　她抬起模糊的双眼，一边转动着手上的手镯，一边直言不讳地答道：“不，我刚刚抢了银行，政府正在重金悬赏我的脑袋。”

　　我一下陷入了困境，直觉得肠子在咕噜噜作响，心里在想该如何回答。我感冒刚好，这回又要病上一场了。我拔腿就跑，一生当中我还没有这样狼狈过。

　　可是，当我从卫生间里出来的时候，她正站在那里等着我。

　　“你生病的时候真可爱。要不要喝一杯?”