I was waiting for a phone call from my agent. He had left a message the night before, telling me that my show was to be cancelled. I called him several times, but each time his secretary told me that he was in a meeting and that he would call me later. So I waited and waited, but there was still no call. Three hours passing by, I became more and more impatient. I was certain that my agent didn't care about my work, and he didn't care about me. I was overcome with that thought. I started to shout at the phone, “Let me wait, will you? Who do you think you are?”

    At that time I didn't realize my wife was looking on. Without showing her surprise, she rushed in, seized the phone, tore off the wires, and shouted at the phone, “Yeah! Who do you think you are? Bad telephone! Bad telephone!” And she swept it into the wastebasket.

    I stood watching her, speechless. What on earth...?

    She stepped to the doorway and shouted at the rest of the house, “Now hear this! All objects in this room---if you do anything to upset my husband, out you go!”

    Then she turned to me, kissed me and said calmly, “Honey, you just have to learn how to take control.” With that, she left the room.

    After watching a crazy woman rushing in and out, shouting at everything in sight , I noticed that something in my mood (情绪) had changed. I was laughing. How could I have trouble with that phone? Her anties helped me realize I had been driven crazy by small things. Twenty minutes later my agent did call. I was able to listen to him and talk to him calmly.

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   动物运动会上，小猴荣获爬竿冠军。在回家的路上，小猴一会儿拍拍小松鼠的肩膀，一会儿向小白兔眨眨眼睛，意思是说，瞧，我的本领多大呀！这时，路边有一位姑娘喊道：“小猴，你说你爬竿的本事比谁都强，这里有根竹竿，你来爬爬看！”小猴子这才注意到，在那位姑娘旁边，确实有筷子般大小的细竹竿。小猴搔搔头说：“这么细的竹竿，我可不行。”小猴看得目瞪口呆。小白兔趁机向小猴子介绍说：“这位姑娘叫牵牛花，又叫喇叭花。”

小猴红着脸说：“今天我才知道，什么叫能人背后有能人，以后我可再也不敢骄傲了。”