蘄陽三哥漂泊美利堅鬧的陳年笑話一則:Had a ball

Early Monday  morning after the Easter weekend, 1994,  I got to the lab and started on my research work for the day. And our lab technician, William, swaggered in and wore a smile from ear to ear. I greeted him, "How are you? William."  "Oh, just peachy,"  he replied. "How was your Easter weekend? Did you do anything fun ?", I added.  "You bet, we went to Charlotte  to have a Civil War reenactment. We had a whole of fun.", he beamed. ( Just so you know, our technician was an American history buff.)  Then he asked me, "How was your weekend?"  "We had fun too, I took my daughter to the Easter egg hunt. As this was her first Easter weekend after she came to US,  she was very excited and had a lot of fun on the egg hunt.", I said.   Then William commented, "She sure had a ball on the egg hunt." "No, she brought back a whole basket of colorful  Easter eggs, but i did not see a ball in it.", I responded. William just burst into laughter after my reply, leaving me puzzled.

 

Acknowledgement:  William, thank you very much for exposing me to a lot of colloquial idioms and American slang during my beginning years in the States.  You never ceased to amaze me with your rich and expressive spoken language.