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Ret's ESL Jokes
One morning, a patient arrived at a doctor’s surgery complaining of severe back pain.
The doctor examined him and asked, “All right, what happened to your back?”
The patient said, “You know I work at a local nightclub, don’t you?”
He continued, “This morning I came home early to my flat and heard a noise in my bedroom. When I went in, I realised someone had been with my wife. Then I saw that the French window to the balcony was open.”
“I hurried out onto the balcony but found no one. Looking down, I saw a man running out of the building and putting his clothes on in a hurry.”
“And?” the doctor said.
“I grabbed the fridge and threw it at him — that’s how I strained my back.”
A second patient came in looking as though he had been in a car accident. The doctor said, “Good God! The previous fellow looked bad, but you look far worse. What happened to you?”
The man said, “You know I’ve been unemployed for some time. Today was my first day at a new job. I forgot to set my alarm clock and overslept. I was running out of the building, getting dressed at the same time, and you won’t believe it, but I got hit by a fridge.”
A third patient arrived, looking even worse than the other two. The doctor was shocked but asked, “What the hell happened to you?”
“Well,” the third man said, “I was hiding in a fridge…”
Vocabulary
Flat: an apartment; a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a building.
French window: a pair of glazed doors that open onto a balcony or garden.
Unemployed: without a paid job.
He lives in a small flat in the city centre.
The French window was wide open.
She has been unemployed since last summer.
Grammar Focus
Past perfect is used for an action completed before another past action. Past continuous describes ongoing actions in the past.
Past perfect: I realised someone had been with my wife.
Past continuous: He was running out of the building and getting dressed.
Synonyms & Alternatives
Flat: apartment
French window: patio doors, balcony doors
Unemployed: out of work, jobless
Mini Dialogue
Doctor: What happened to your back?
Patient 1: I grabbed a fridge and threw it off the balcony!
Doctor: And you?
Patient 2: I was running out and a fridge hit me.
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