A guy dialed his home phone number.

A strange woman answered.

"Who is this?" he said.

"This is the maid," answered the woman.

"You''r not Mary, our maid!"

"I was just hired this moring by the lady of the house."

"Well, this is her husband. Is she there?"

"Ummm...she''s upstairs...in the bedroom with someone who I just figured
was her husband."

The guy was fuming and said to the maid, "Listen, would you like to
make $50,000?"

"What do I have to do?"

"I want you to get my gun in the livingroom and shoot that witch and
the jerk she''s with."

"What should I do with the bodies?" the maid asked.

"Throw them in the swimming pool!"

"What pool?"

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<> figure : ~이라고 생각하다
<> fume : 부아가 나다, 발끈하다
<> witch : 마녀, 추한 여자
<> jerk : 멍청이
<> body : 시신

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집에서 전화를 받은 사람은 모르는 여자였다.

"누구시오?" "가정부입니다"

"우리 가정부 메리가 아닌데..."

"오늘 아침에 마님께서 불러서 새로 왔습니다"

"나 남편인데 그 사람 있어요?"

"저...위층에요...잠자리에 계신데 저는 함께 있는 그분이 바깥분인줄
알았는데..."

사내는 발끈해서 가정부에게 말했다.

"이봐요, 돈 5만달러 벌 생각없어요?"

"뭘 해야 하는데요?"

"거실에 있는 총으로 연놈 쏴 죽여버려요"

"시신은 어떡하고요?"

"풀에 버려요!"

"풀이 어디 있는데요?"

( 한 국 경 제 신 문 1999년 12월 29일자 ).