Beaten by a Game Holic

By Yan Ge

One night a burglar broke into a house and was overjoyed at the sight of a laptop sitting on the coffee table ready for the taking.

As he drew near the laptop the door of a bathroom opened suddenly and he dashed behind the curtain and held his breath,sitting as still as a statue.

A man came out of the bathroom and sat in front of the computer busying himself with work. His head drooped slightly as he was wholly absorbed in what flickered in front of him on the computer screen. The burglar looked around and thought that the man was so enthralled with his game that he would never notice there was another man in the room. Thus our intrepid antihero relaxed and waited for the man to go to bed so that he could find the opportune moment to make his heist.

But he sat there waiting for two hours enduring a painful cramp in his leg, yet the man seemingly had no intention of going to bed. To make matters worse, the man seemed to be stuck, forever doomed to repeat hitting the keyboard and swearing at the computer, “Damn it, if I can’t get through this level I’m not going to sleep!”

The game the man played was actually not difficult at all, and the thief was himself an expert at it. Eventually he could not take any more of the man’s klutzy stupidity. The minute the man took a bathroom break, the thief scrambled to the computer, and with the skillful press of a button or two he navigated the character past the level boss.

When the man got back from his pit stop, he was overjoyed to see that the problem was solved,and he thought that he had passed the level himself. He could not fight back a long deep yawn and he muttered to himself as he walked towards the bedroom,“Well, I finally passed the game,time for bed.”

The thief was ecstatic, and he crouched in wait for the chance to abscond with the laptop that was sure to come in no time.Unexpectedly, the man opened the door of bedroom and shouted to his wife who was lounging on the bed, “Hay babe, it is your turn to play the game.”

(FromComedy World,April 2017. Translation: Zhou Honghua, English Language and Literature Department of Wuhan Qingchuan University)

一天晚上，一个小偷翻进一户人家，看到茶几上有台打开的笔记本电脑，不禁心下大喜。

当小偷正想靠近电脑时，卫生间的门忽然开了，小偷赶忙躲到落地窗帘后面，屏住呼吸，一动也不敢动。

一个男人从卫生间出来，往电脑前一坐，便低头忙碌起来。小偷观察了一下情况，原来，那男人正全神贯注地玩游戏，哪会留意家里进贼了呢？于是，小偷松懈下来，心想等那男人去睡了，再偷也不迟。

谁知，小偷这一等就足足等了两个小时。他站得腿都快抽筋了，男人还没有去睡觉的意思。更可怕的是，这个男人似乎遇到了难关，一边手忙脚乱地敲着键盘，一边还骂骂咧咧：“今晚要过不了这一关，还就不睡了。”

事实上，男人玩的游戏并不难，小偷也会，而且还是高手。看着男人笨拙的操作手势，小偷实在是忍无可忍，当男人再次走进厕所的时候，小偷迅速跑到电脑前，没费吹灰之力就搞定了那一关。

男人回来，见久攻不下的那一关竟然过了，不禁喜出望外，糊里糊涂地还以为是自己的功劳呢。他忍不住打了个哈欠，自言自语道：“这关总算过了，我也该去睡觉啦。”

小偷心里乐坏了。不料，男人一推开卧室的门就嚷了起来：“老婆，快起来，下半夜轮到你玩啦。”