5625. Spaghetti
An American doctor was having an affair with his nurse. A few months passed and the nurse ended up pregnant. Not wanting his wife to know the affair, the doctor gave her money to go live her family in Italy, where she was able to bear a baby. He promised to send her enough money to raise the baby there. Before leaving the country, the nurse asked the doctor, “How will I let you know when the baby is born?” He told her to send him a postcard just writing “spaghetti” without any other information, not to mention her name and address. Several moths later, the doctor’s wife called him at his office, telling that she had received a very strange postcard from an European country without the sender’s name and address. The doctor told her he would look at it when he came home. That evening, the doctor’s wife gave him the postcard. With a glance at it, the doctor had a heart attack and suddenly fell to the floor. The wife called 911 and the ambulance car came to their house and the doctor was rushed to the Emergency Room. At the hospital, a paramedic kept her company while her husband was receiving medical treatment. He asked her about what happened before his heart attack. She pulled the postcard from her handbag and said, “I don’t know. He fell to the ground after I handed him this postcard.” The paramedic puzzled and read the postcard aloud, “Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti. Spaghetti. Two with sausage and meatballs, two without.”
5625. スパゲッティ
アメリカ人の医者が看護婦と肉体関係を結び、数か月後看護婦が妊娠していることがわかった。医者は妻にこの不倫がバレることを恐れ、看護婦に彼女の故郷であるイタリアの実家で子供を産むようにと金を渡して、子供を育てるのに十分な金は送金するからと約束した。アメリカを離れる前に看護婦は医者に「私が出産したことを、どうやってあなたに知らせれば良いかしら?」と聞くので、医者は彼女に絵葉書に彼女の名前や住所は書かずに、ただ「スパゲティ」とだけ書いて自分に送ってくれと言った。数か月後、この医者の妻から医者の職場に電話がかかってきた。彼女が言うには差出人も住所も書いていないヨーロッパのどこかからの奇妙な絵葉書を受け取ったというのだ。彼女の夫は家に戻ったらそれを見てみると答えた。その晩医者の妻が彼に問題の絵葉書を渡した。彼はそれを一目みるなり心臓麻痺を起こして、その場に倒れてしまった。妻は199番で救急車を家まで呼び、意識不明の医者は病院の緊急救命室に運ばれた。病院で夫が緊急治療を受けている間、救急車に乗っていた救急隊員が彼女の横に付き添ってくれた。救急隊員が彼女に御主人が晋三麻痺を起こす前に何があったのかと尋ねたので、彼女は「わかりません。私がこの絵葉書を渡した途端に彼は床に崩れ落ちたんです」と答えた。救急隊員は狐につままれたような表情で。その絵葉書に書かれた言葉を声に出しながら読んだ。「スパゲティ、スパゲティ、スパゲティ、スパゲティ。二つはソーセージとミートボール付き。残りの二つはなし」
●この看護婦はイタリアの実家で四つ子(二人は男、二人は女)を産んだのですね。 |