Общий курс английского языка. Часть 6 (С1— С2). 13 552 английских слова + © Лингвистический Реаниматор - страница 9

– Come on, everything will work out like the last time. Do you remember when you set fire to your country house, on forgetting to turn off the iron? In general, if I were you, I would buy a new computer, just like this one, maybe David would not notice the substitution.

– Exactly! Why have not I thought of it myself? Let’s google the store and go for a new laptop until my husband returns.

So they did. However, they decided not to buy it at the store, they found a used computer by a private announcement on the Avito site, went shopping, but forgot to move the damaged laptop from the table.

It was necessary to go to the suburbs of Moscow, through trafic, by poor roads full of potholes. Therefore, the round trip took them much more time than they had expected:

– ¡Caramba, maldita sea! – Solomonida cursed in Spanish. – David has been at home for a couple of hours, that makes a hundred percent, and we haven’t even reached Moscow yet.

Besides, for some reason I turned off the phone, as I was very nervous, but now it’s just scary to turn it on. David is so jealous that he can just kill me upon my returning home.

– Well, dude, a scandal is inevitable. There’s no way you’re getting out of this! As far as I remember, we didn’t hide the broken laptop, huh?

– You don’t say, shit!

The clock struck midnight when sneaking on tiptoe, with new laptops in her bag, Sofia entered the apartment and saw the light on in the kitchen:

– Hello, dear! Why are you so late? – a calm voice of her husband came out from the kitchen.

Hardly believing her ears, she left the bag in the corridor, put on her slippers and went into the kitchen, where David was sitting at the table, eating Ukrainian borsch with a wooden Russian spoon and watching some action movie in the same damaged computer.

Then the resourceful woman decided to ask her husband what had exactly happened with that laptop, and made a smart move:

– This morning I tried to turn it on and could not, I thought it had been bro- ken, but you did it, it’s strange!

– There isn’t anything weird, actually. Perhaps you accidentally pressed the F2 button and thus turned off the screen, that’s all.

– What are you saying! Is it so easy? – the confused girl exclaimed, and all the hardships of the past day flashed before her eyes.

– And why are you so late today, after visiting Julia again? At that very moment Solomonida decided to be frank.

– You won’t believe! – she began her story, which was as follows.

After the laptop was diagnosed with a terminal illness, they quickly found the same computer at a reasonable price on the Internet, and, having agreed with the seller, went on a dificult journey by the potholes and pits of the Moscow region.

Not noticing another hump on the road, Sonechka, unable to hold the steer- ing wheel, accelerated for some reason, then gave a sharp brake, they found themselves in a ditch, after which the jeep stalled and did not want to start again.

Having stopped a Mercedes-Benz car passing by, they begged its driver to pull out their car and tow them to the nearest car service center.

He obligingly agreed. And then, being towed by the black Mercedes, two girl- friends, on settling comfortably in their jeep, began to leaf through a fashion magazine.