英语小幽默

      ①An old gentleman whose eyesight was failing came to stay in a hotel room with two bottles of wine in hand.

      

      ②On the wall there was a fly which he took for a nail.

      

      ③The moment he hung the bottles on,they fell broken and the wine spilt all over the floor.

      

      ④When a waitress discovered what had happened,she showed deep sympathy for him and decided to do him a favour.

      

      ⑤The next morning when he was out taking a walk in the roof garden,she hammered a nail exactly where the fly had stayed.

      

      ⑥Now the old man entered his room.When he looked up at the wall,he found the fly was there again!He walked to it carefully and slapped it with all his strength.

      

      ⑦on hearing a lond cry,the kindhearted waitress rushed in.To her great surprise,the poor old man was there sitting on the floor,his teeth clenched and his right hand bleeding!