"Please give me three more minutes." "I"m almost done."
(Looking at her watch, she senses that she made it in time)
I just finished typing the report. Thanking you for waiting for me, Mr. Kim. After that, she went out to the lounge to enjoy drinking a cup of coffee with her co-worker, Jung-suk. They got back to the office in three minutes. Her co-worker Jung-suk is really beautiful. But she doesn"t have a boyfriend. As most men consider that she has a handsome boyfriend, no one has the courage to get enough close to strike up a conversation with her. They avoid seeing her face directly.
One day early in the morning, Mr. Pyun(변) ran to the office building to get on the elevator. He almost came near missing it. As soon as he stepped on the elevator,
he felt that someone was already in the elevator. He turned back, there was Jung-suk standing in the left side of the corner of the elevator. He is a kind of man, like a bull charging a bullfighter with a red cape. Does he have to give up taking benefit of her? I don"t know the answer to the question. Maybe you"re better than me. Anyway it"s up to you. He looked back at Jung-suk to say Good-morning to her. "Hi. my name is Kang-soi." "Excuse me, I can"t hear you." "Would you please repeat that?" "O.K. My name is Kang-soi(강쇠)." "Nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you, too." "By the way, what is your last name?" "You mean " family name?" "Of course. My family name is pyun." "Ah."
How about your name? My name is Jung-suk. "Family name?" "Oh" "Would you please say that again?" "Okay." " Oh." "So your full name is Jung-suk Oh" - " Oh Jung-suk." That"s right. "Oh, you"re beautiful." Her face became red. She feels that something dangerous might happen. But the elevator reached the 45th floor faster than expected. They tried to put the button to open the door. But it won"t open.
Suddenly the light went out. He thinks that there is power outage. They didn"t know what to do. They could hear the loud breath from each other. It is becoming louder and louder. They tried to control themselves well to look forward to going out of the elevator. They heard something cutting the door of the elevator.
I think that the rescue team arrived to save them being trapped in the dark elevator. They were glad to be safe without any hurts or injuries. But there was a big hurt of not improving their intimate relationship.
Do you know what kind of "~ing" they have on mind?
The answer is " They don"t mind falling in love with each other."
(정리)
finish ~ing (~하는 것을 끝내다)
thank for ~ing (~한 것에 감사하다)
enjoy~ing(~하는 것을 즐기다)
avoid~ing(~하는 것을 회피하다)
come near ~ing (거의~할 뻔하다)
give up ~ing (~하는 것을 포기하다)
it is becoming more and more (점점더 ~해지고 있다)
look forward to ~ing (~하기를 학수고대하다)
of~ing (전치사의 목적어-동명사형태)
mind~ing (~하는 것을 꺼리다)
written by eddie (채희성)
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