Massage machine mayhem 恐怖的按摩機
One day Mark and Kathleen went to the mall to get some supplies for the summer. Mark needed new swim trunks and sunglasses while Kathleen wanted to get a volleyball set and a big hat to block the sun.
They walked around the mall for hours. Kathleen couldn’t find a hat she liked.
“Why don’t you just get that red one?” Mark asked.
“There are flowers on it. I don’t like hats with flowers,” Kathleen said.
“You’re being too picky,” Mark complained.
Eventually Kathleen did find a hat she liked. But by that time the two friends were beat.
“I have an idea!” Kathleen said. “Let’s go to the store with the massage chairs. They let you have a free trial.”
Finally Mark felt that things were looking up again.
They went to the store. Kathleen sat in a massage chair, and Mark put his feet into a special machine for massaging the legs.
After about 20 minutes Mark and Kathleen were ready to go. But Mark couldn’t turn the machine off and couldn’t get his feet out.
“That’s strange,” Mark said.
He tried using his trunk to pry his legs away from the machine. But then his trunk got stuck, too!
Mark shouted, “Kathleen, help me…!”
(MICHAEL KEARNEY, STAFF WRITER)
某天馬克和凱薩琳去一家購物中心採買一些夏日用品，馬克要買新泳褲和太陽眼鏡，凱薩琳則是想買一組排球用具和一頂大遮陽帽。
他們在購物中心逛了好幾個小時，凱薩琳都選不到喜歡的帽子。
馬克問：「妳怎麼不選那頂紅色的？」
凱薩琳說：「那頂上面有花，我不喜歡有花的帽子。」
馬克抱怨說：「妳太龜毛了啦。」
最後凱薩琳還是沒有選到喜歡的帽子，但他們兩人已經累壞了。
凱薩琳說：「我有個點子！我們去那間有按摩椅的店吧，他們可以讓你免費試用。」
這下馬克才終於又振作了起來。
他們到了那間店，凱薩琳坐上一台按摩椅，馬克把他的腳放到一部專門按摩腿部的按摩機中。
大約二十分鐘後，馬克和凱薩琳準備離開，但馬克卻無法關掉那台機器，也無法把他的腳抽出來。
馬克說：「這好奇怪。」
他想用鼻子把腿從機器中撬出來，結果他的鼻子也卡住了！
馬克大叫：「凱薩琳，救救我…！」
（翻譯：袁星塵）
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