“You’ll have to take care of the baby today,” a woman told
her husband. “I’m not feeling well.”
  “Then you must stay in bed and rest, dear,” her husband
said. “I’ll be pleased to look after our baby.”
  “Thank you. I’ll have a quiet day and I’ll soon get better,”
his wife told him.
  “Should I go shopping for you as well?” her husband asked.
    She was very pleased and said, “That will help me a lot. I’ll
give you a list of things to buy.”
  She wrote out the list and gave it to him.
  “You can get all these things at the supermarket,” she said.

  “You can put the baby in the shopping cart, so you won’t have to
leave him outside.”
  The man took the baby to the supermarket and put him in
the shopping cart. Then he pushed the shopping cart along the
shelves and looked for those that were on his list.
  At first all was well, but then the baby began to cry.
  Then he started to scream.
  And scream!
  And SCREAM!
  “Keep calm, George,” the man said. “Don’t get excited.
Don’t shout, George. Don’t lose your temper, George.”
  A woman in the supermarket heard him saying these
things. She walked up to him.
  “I think you are wonderful,” she said. “You are so patient
with your little George.”
  “Madam,” the man said, “I’m George. He’s Edw

          大　婴　儿
  妻子对丈夫说：“今天你得照顾宝宝，因为我感觉不舒服。”
  “那你就躺在床上休息吧，亲爱的，我很乐意照顾宝宝。”丈夫说。
  妻子对他说：“谢谢你，亲爱的，我终于可以安静一天了，很快我就会
好的。”
  丈夫说：“我也可以替你去购物。”
  妻子非常高兴，说道：“亲爱的，你可帮我大忙了。我给你列个购物
单。”
  她列了需要买的东西，把单子递给丈夫。
  “你可以在超市买到这些东西。到时你可以把孩子放在购物的手推车
里，这样就不至于把宝宝留在外面了。” 她告诉丈夫。
  丈夫把孩子带到超市，把他放在购物的手推车里。然后，他把手推车推
到购物架旁，开始挑选单子上所列的商品。
  一开始，一切都很正常，但后来，孩子哭起来。紧接着，孩子哇哇大
哭，声音越来越大，似乎要喊破喉咙。
  “镇定点儿，乔治。不要生气，不要发脾气，不要失态。”
  超市里一个女人听到他的话，朝他走过来。
  她夸奖说：“你简直太棒了，对你的小乔治这么有耐心。”
  “夫人，我才是乔治呢，他叫爱德华。”丈夫说。