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

And once Solomonida (as so David lovingly called her) cooked dinner in the kitchen, writing a post for her blog «Everything for the Blondes» and being hung up on a phone call with a friend.

Suddenly, the Ukrainian borsch, which her husband loved so much, began to boil out of the pan directly onto a clean, brand new cooker, washed to a lovely sheen on the eve.

– Shit! – Sonechka cursed out, threw the phone on the open laptop and fo- cused on her borsch.

After the minor kitchen troubles had been eliminated, she returned to the computer and – oh, what the hell! Its screen was black. Deciding that it was hibernating, she rebooted it, but that did not change the situation.

It would seem that the problem could be solved easily by calling her husband or waiting for his return from the office.

But given the fact that three days before, Sofia had cracked his ride all to hell, after which a new one was already bought, since the first one was be- yond repair, the woman felt a certain danger, and decided to deal with the com- puter herself.

Therefore, she invited her best friend, the blonde Julia, to visit her.

Julia carefully examined the laptop, pushed some buttons on it, but to no avail:

– In my opinion, your laptop is dead! – she diagnosed.

– You don’t say! What am I supposed to do now? We’ve just bought a new car, and a bank credit for my mink coat hangs on David, and it isn’t only for the fur coat, he has got a lot of credits for my clothes. And this laptop is so sophisti- cated, and it’s David’s favorite one. I think this time there will be a big scandal.

– 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.

They were so carried away by its content that Sofochka forgot that after all she should glance at the road.

She only broke away from the magazine when her brand new silver vehicle hit its savior really hard. The Mercedes driver got upset:

– Oh, what have you done, dear lady! Do you have any idea of how much the repair will cost?

– Oh, I’ve never been towed before. – Sofia hastened to justify herself. – Forgive me, please do not be angry, I will pay you everything, sure, just tow us to the repair shop!

– Okay, let’s go further, but I beg. be careful – my car is completely new, as well as yours.

But there one more time, Solomonida’s driving skills failed – despite the fact that she tried her best to keep the right distance, she did not manage to keep her foot on the brake at the right time and, accordingly, drove into Mer- cedes again.

At the same time, trying to soften the impending collision, the woman began to sharply twist the steering wheel to the left. As a result, the car was driven in the same direction, and, having demolished the taillight and bumper of the unfortunate Mercedes, it drove into the ditch, smoothly pulling the car be- hind it.

The stunned driver of the latter caught himself in time and rushed forward, not allowing the jeep to slide into the ditch. The owner of the Mercedes got upset:

– Oh, who issued you a driver’s license, dear lady? Show me this pest! – he cried with bitterness. – Now you can’t pay me off! Well, come on – get into my car, dear ladies, I will bring you to the service, and then the local mechanics will tow your jeep there.

And so they did. As a result, Sofochka nevertheless paid off both the Mer- cedes driver and the car service worker who had restored both cars. But all that cost her pretty expensive.

Then the ladies finally got to the seller of the laptop, and Sonya paid for the purchase, discounting the last bit of her money from the credit card. Well, and then, almost without incident, she got home.