| Mood-Checker | |
March 9, 2014
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| He invented a machine ~a mood-checker. If you put this small machine up to your right ear like an ear-phone or a hearing-aid, the monitor will show your state of mind, with a reading level of 1 to 10. If it's a 10, you are very happy and satisfied; but if it's a 1, you are very unhappy and malcontent; and, if it's a zero, you are dead. As a trial, he went to a movie theater with his new invention. The movie was fun, and he enjoyed it very much; after which, he checked the mood-checker; it showed a level 7. He was satisfied with the movie, and the results of the 'mood-checker'. He tried this machine many times and he was sure that the machine reflected his mental states accurately. There was a girl that he liked. One day he asked her on a date. Luckily, she agreed with it. He was very pleased and checked his state of mind ~it was a 9. He could positively say that this result was right; he was very happy to have a date with her. Soon, he and the girl became intimate. When he talked to his friend about her, he
The guy laughed, "I don't have such bad manners. I'm definitely sure that she loves me indeed." But the more that he loved her, the more that he wanted to know how much she loved him. On top of that, he couldn't help not wanting to use his new machine. He made improvement on his machine in order to be able to record. So, he planned how to test her. When they went on their next date, he passed her the machine saying that it was a new type of health checker. Without any doubts, she put it on. During their date, her emotions were recorded in the machine as a line-graph. After the date, he checked the machine. He was upset. The graph of her mind on the screen read between a 3 and a 5. He thought that maybe the machine was broken and checked it; it was not broken. He thought that the way of attaching the machine on her ear was not correct; so, he tried it many times on various other dates with her, but the results were always the same. At last, he asked her, "Do you really love me?" She replied, "Yes. Of course, I do." He asked, "Isn't it your imagination?" he asked. Her face became hard, "What do you mean by that? Do you doubt my love?" He played it off saying that it was only a joke. After the incident, he broke up with her. She was very shocked when he told her, and she asked for what reasons many times over and over, crying hard. He said nothing. A couple years had passed. He came to love another woman. Once again, he tried the machine on her. This time the result was different from the last time. At first, he tried it on her right ear and the reading was a 3 to a 5, but when he tried it again on her left ear, it was a 7 to an 8; it worked! He realized that the machine worked for only the right ear for men and the left ear for women. He remembered the crying face of his former girlfriend. He smashed up the machine, and at the same time, also broke up with his new girlfriend. |
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*malcontent :someone who is likely to cause trouble because they dissatisfied (L)
*unreliable :unable to be trusted or depended on (L)