Sticky fingers
原文
What two interruptions did the writer have?
After breakfast, I sent the children to school and then I went to the shops.
It was still early when I returned home.
The children were at school, my husband was at work and the house was quiet.
So I decided to make some meat pies.
In a short time I was busy mixing butter
and flour and my hands were soon covered with sticky pastry.
At exactly that moment, the telephone rang.
Nothing could have been more annoying.
I picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed when I recognized the voice of Helen Bates.
It took me ten minutes to persuade her to ring back later. At last I hung up the receiver.
What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, on the telephone, and on the doorknobs.
I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than the doorbell rang loud enough to wake the dead.
This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a registered letter!
译文
作者遇到了哪两种打扰？
早餐后，我送孩子们去了学校，然后去了商店。
当我回到家时，时间还早。
孩子们都在学校，我丈夫也在上班，家里一片安静。
所以我决定做一些肉馅派。
没过多久，我就忙着搅拌黄油了。
和面粉，很快我的双手就沾满了粘糊糊的油酥面团。
就在那一刻，电话响了。
没有什么比这更让人恼火了。
我用两个沾满油酥的手指拿起听筒，当听出是海伦·贝茨的声音时，我感到非常沮丧。
我花了十分钟的时间才说服她稍后回电话。最后，我终于挂断了电话。
真是一团糟！我的手指上、电话上，还有门把手上都沾满了油酥面团。
我刚回到厨房，门铃就响得震天响，仿佛连死人都会被吵醒。
这次来的是邮递员，他让我签收一封挂号信！