(ITA - 2003 - 1a fase)I want to be six againA man

(ITA - 2003 - 1a fase)

I want to be six again

A man asked his wife what she’d like for her birthday.
“I’d love to be six again,” she replied.
On the morning of her birthday, he got her up bright
and early and off they went to a local theme park.
What a day! He put her on every ride in the park: the
Death Slide, the Screaming Loop, the Wall of Fear –
everything there was!
Wow! Five hours later she staggered out of the theme
park, her head reeling and her stomach upside down.
Right to a McDonald’s they went, where her husband
ordered a Big Mac for her along with extra fries and a
refreshing chocolate shake. Then it was off to a movie
– the latest Star Wars epic, and hot dogs, popcorn,
Pepsi Cola and M&Ms. What a fabulous adventure!
Finally she wobbled home with her husband and collapsed
into bed.
He leaned over and lovingly asked, “Well, dear, what
was it like being six again?
One eye opened. “You idiot, I meant my dress size.”
The moral of this story is: if a woman speaks and a
man is there to hear her, he will get it wrong anyway.

A frase: “My father once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be
in the first group; there was much less competition there”, é atribuída a Indira Gandhi.

A intenção do pai de Indira, em relação à filha, era provavelmente