Devil in the Words. Книга для практики английского языка

He took the basket and immediately headed toВ the dairy department. There he ran into aВ girl from his building. She recognized him, it was obvious, they had seen each other more than once, but had never spoken. She drove an expensive car, apparently worked for some large company, and had recently acquired aВ young man who visited her from time toВ time. Peter liked her. He would like toВ approach her, but he was very embarrassed about his situation. Now, if he sold at least one book, as he thought, and made money from it, he could call himself aВ writer, and then he could approach her.

But he was unemployed, and her car cost a million and a half, no less, and she looked quite serious. She didn’t look like the kind of girl you could just walk up to, like some schoolgirl at a school disco.

Peter made an important appearance and walked into the dairy department. There he found milk on sale, for which he had just enough money, and took two bottles. He went toВ the checkout with the milk.

His next door neighbor was standing there. He pretended that he didn’t know her. He just stood behind him and put the milk on the moving belt. The neighbor looked at him, she clearly wanted to say hello, but did not do so.

The cashier knocked the milk.

– Ninety-nine rubles.

Peter took out aВ В«one hundred rubleВ» bill from his pants pocket and handed it toВ the cashier. She took it, put it inВ the cash register, and took out aВ В«one rubleВ» coin from there, giving it toВ Peter.

Having taken the coin, Peter took both bottles ofВ milk and went home. He carried the bottles inВ his hands, since he did not have enough money for aВ package.

Returning home, he put the milk inВ the refrigerator and immediately turned on the electric kettle toВ pour himself some coffee. While the kettle was heating up, he went into the room, took off his street clothes, and returned toВ the kitchen with hisВ mug.

The water inВ the kettle was just boiling.

Having poured sugar and coffee into aВ mug, Peter poured hot boiling water over everything, stirred thoroughly, and added milk.

Leaving the teaspoon inВ the kitchen, he returned toВ the room and sat down at the computer, inВ which the office program inВ which he was writing aВ book was open. Only one paragraph was written.

Having tried toВ continue writing the book, Peter realized that he would not succeed.