A woman woke in the middle of the night to find her husband missing from their bed. In the stillness of the house,she could hear a muffled sound downstairs. She went downstairs and looked around,still not finding her husband. Listening again,she could definitely hear moaning. She went down to the basement where she finally found her husband crouched in the corner facing the wall,sobbing.“What’s wrong with you?”she asked him.“Remember when your father caught us having sex when you were sixteen?”he replied.“And remember he said I had two choices: I could either marry you,or spend the next twenty years in prison.”Baffled,she said,“Yes,I remember,so what?”The husband sobbed,“I would have gotten out today.”
一個婦人半夜醒來,發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的丈夫從床上消失了。在寂靜的房間里,她聽到樓下傳來壓抑的哭泣聲。她下樓四處尋找,也沒看見丈夫。她又聽了聽,確定了嗚咽聲的來源。她走到地下室,發(fā)現(xiàn)丈夫蜷縮在墻角,臉對著墻在抽泣?!澳阍趺戳??”她問丈夫?!斑€記得十六歲時你父親看見我們在一起親熱時所說的話嗎?”丈夫答復(fù)道,“他說我有兩個選擇:要么娶你,要么入獄二十年?!彼芤苫蟮貑柕溃骸笆堑模矣浀?,那又怎么了?”丈夫哭訴道:“我本來今天已經(jīng)可以出獄了?!?