As students in the college of veterinary medicine at Texas A & M University, we frequently treated the farm animals at the state prison. While awkwardly performing a medical procedure on an unruly horse, a classmate said to the prisoner who was holding the animal, "Sorry I'm taking so long." "No problem," the prisoner replied, "I'm doing seven years.
我在德克薩斯A&M大學獸醫藥學系學習的.時候，同學們經常把動物帶到州監獄裏去治療。有一次我們笨手笨腳的給一匹烈馬做完檢查，我同學對一直按着這匹馬的犯人說：“真是不好意思，我用了這麼長時間。”“沒關係，”他回答說，“我已經作了七年這種事了。”