英文故事14 I Broke Up With My GF Because Of Potatoes

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This is Andy. He’s always had an unusual sense of humor. He also used to have a girlfriend...who didn’t really get that sense of humor. This is the story of how Andy found out about that. Andy’s girlfriend once invited him to have dinner at her parent’s place. Woah! He’d never met them before, and so he was feeling pretty nervous about it. You can probably understand – meeting the parents is just one of those milestones that you’d always prefer to be some way ahead of you. But it had to happen some day. Things started out nicely when the moment came. Then the thought occurred in naive Andy’s head that he ought to do something funny – it would make a good impression and maybe make her parent’s stop being so serious. When Andy noticed that they were going to serve baked potatoes, he decided to pretend that he didn’t know what potatoes were. That would surely be hilarious, he thought to himself. It was, in one sense, but at the same time the joke backfired. So when they served up the potatoes, Andy started acting really strange. He managed to express a mix of curiosity and interest on his face in rapid succession. Her parents noticed this and looked confused, but they didn’t say anything. So it was then that Andy began his ridiculous prank. "This looks very interesting. What is it?" They stared at him, and then the mother said "It's a baked potato." "Oh, interesting, a baked...what is it again?" "A potato." "A 'potato'. How interesting. Never heard of these, looks pretty good."

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