The Joy and horror of marriage ¡@

Second Place Winner 2004 English Humorous Speech Contest  Casey Lin  ¶ê¤s Tuan Shan

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     25 years age, when I was a young , beautiful girl, I had a dream, one day a handsome prince will ride his white hours and take me to his Castle.

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     My dream came true in 1979, in a beautiful Sunday morning, I met my prince not in a resplendent dancing party but on the bus, he fall in love with me at first sight, one week later he knelt down in front me on the bus and proposed: “MMarry me , I'll give you everything? I looked at him, He wore a dirty jeans, old T-shirt, but he was so handsome and had magnetic voice, I close my eyes and thought prince charming then shouted: Yes, I do ?

After married, I thought we'll have a fancy and splendid wedding ceremony,

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no? he took me and his relatives to the night market. after dinner my prince wanted to take me to his castle ,not on his white house but on his second hand bicycle, when we got there, to my surprise, there was no castle, all I can see it just a small apartment, and that tiny place was for me, my prince, his mother, and three dogs, it was so small that I had to leave my suitcase outside , It was a special but crowded first night, evening came I changed into my sexy satin dress, turned off the light, we went to bed, that was when my nightmare began, one minute later, I heard a loud noise?. I opened the window to see if we were near the airport, nothing there, the sound not from outside, I turn the light on, it was my prince, he snored just like a tank, then I heard another noise from near door, my mother-in-law was snoring too, there were harmonizing! I looked at three dogs, it seems there were enjoying the noise, because they had their ears covered with their little paws.

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     From that night, I never had a good night sleep just sat beside my prince and looked at him snoring, it bothered me a lot so I tried many ways to stop the noise, if I pushed him, he stopped for 5 seconds, turn over, then snored again, I tried earplugs, It did not even soften the rumble, I tried to go to bed before but I was rudely awakened to the sound of a fright train. I begged him to see a Dr. , he reply in a innocent sound :? I snore ? my girlfriends never complained before, you may have problem with your ears.? It really drove me crazy. One night, I was so desperate to stop the noise, I put the pillow over his mouth, suddenly, he stop snoring, everything was quite, then it seemed he stop breathing, I was so scared, I remove the pillow and did mouth to mouth resuscitation, he woke up and thought I was kissing him. I discovered that, every time when he stopped breathing for a while, I did mouth to mouth, then it resulted in one more baby. Each baby snored louder then the previous one,

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    Oh~~~ my goodness, I am turning into a snoring factory.

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    My nightmare continued for 20 years, then my prince bought me a real big castle, but he still snored, it did not matter, because I got my own bedroom at least, I could sleep like a baby, my prince snored in his room, my two daughters snored together, my son snored in the second floors, and the two dogs inside the house already knows how to snore. One night, my prince came into my room at midnight, when I open my eyes, I saw my son , two daughters and two dogs in front of me, they looked at me with their sleepy eyes, I hold my daughter hand: {what's wrong, honey?}, she said: Mum, we love you so much, but could you please stop snoring?

   

    Ladies and Gentleman!
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    To guarantee a happy marriage and peaceful life , the best advise I can give to you is, if you can't bit them, Join them.