Notes
bakery 製パン所、パン屋;
ring up 売上げなどを〉（レジに）記録する;
cinnamon roll シナモンロール;
straight-faced 真面目くさった顔で;
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After voting on Election Day, I stopped at a bakery. As the cashier rang up some cinnamon rolls and doughnuts for the man ahead of me, the customer joked, “Do you guarantee these don’t have any calories?”
Straight-faced, the clerk responded, “Absolutely no calories.”
“You know where you’ll go if you lie like this?” the man teased.
“Yes,” said the cashier. “To Congress.”
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Notes:
fail  不合格;
bloody  《英俗》 ひどい，いやな，べらぼうな;

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1. An exam is like a girlfriend
An exam is just like a girlfriend. Both have too many questions. Both are difficult to understand. Both need explanations. And both often get the same result: FAIL!

2. Why?
Birth and death only come once in life. Love only comes once in life. Marriage only comes once in life.But why do these bloody EXAMS come over and over again!?”

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