Doctors are used to getting calls at any hour. One night a man phoned, waking me up. “I’m sorry to bother you so late,” he said, “but I think my wife has appendicitis.”
Still half asleep, I reminded him that I had taken his wife’s inflamed appendix out a couple of years before. “Whoever heard of a second appendix?” I asked.
“You may not have heard of a second appendix,” he replied, “but surely you’ve heard of a second wife.”
Vocabulary Help
- at any hour – a qualquer hora
- get calls – receber telefonemas
- half asleep – meio dormindo
- hear (hear, heard, heard) – ouvir
- remind – lembrar
- reply – responder
- take out – remover
- wake up – acordar
- wife – esposa