False Alarm 錯誤的警告

Years ago while attending a dinner party hosted by some friends of mine the hostess served a meal with this delicious mushroom sauce. After the meal there was a small amount left over and the hostess decided1 to allow her pregnant cat to enjoy the treat as well as the guests. The guests all felt it was a great gesture and showed the cat was a member of the family.

The sauce was the highlight of the evening's TOPic of conversation, everyone commented on how delicious it was, and the hostess beamed at all the compliments. One of the guest commented that toadstools were much like mushrooms except for being toxic2, and how funny it would be if such a culinary treat were made from that instead.

As if on cue, the pet cat started crying and squirming on the floor, clutching its belly3. The hostess exclaimed, Oh my God, it's the mushroom sauce!

We all went to the emergency room in a mad rush, and had our stomachers pumped after telling them we had eaten poisonous mushrooms. This was an extremely unpleasant experience.

We got back, the cat was lying on the floor peacefully looking up at us, and had given birth to kittens.

多年前，我參加了一個朋友組織的晚餐聚會，女主人拿出她親手做的美味的蘑菇沙司來款待大家。 晚飯過后，還剩下一些沙司，因此女主人決定讓她那懷孕的貓也像客大家一樣享受這美味。在座的客人都感覺，這個偉大的舉動表明這只貓就仿佛是家的一員一樣。

沙司成為最受青睞的話題，大伙都說沙司簡直太美味了。由于遭到夸獎，女主人露出了微笑。其中一個客人說傘菌像極了蘑菇，只不過有毒而已，倘若用它來款待大伙，那真的是太可笑了。

仿佛有了暗示一樣，那只小貓咪開始在地板上又叫又滾，并且不停地撓我們的肚子。女主人說道：噢，我的上帝啊，它剛吃了蘑菇沙司呀！

大家所有些人立即趕往急診室，并告訴大夫大家吃了毒蘑菇。大家都被洗了胃。這可真是一次讓人感覺沮喪的歷程。

從醫院回來將來，那只貓平靜地躺在地板上看著大家，它生小貓了！