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Wie verrückt, dass jemand annahm, Bärenspray funktioniere wie Mückenspray!
How mad it was to think someone would assume anti-bear spray was like mosquito spray!
Sie war mit den Gedanken ganz woanders gewesen. In der Mittagspause hatte sie in der Zeitung etwas über eine dumme Amerikanerin gelesen, die mit ihrer Familie einen Ausflug in die Rocky Mountains gemacht und ihre Kinder mit Bärenspray eingesprüht hatte.
She gaily talked about how she simply didn’t know what she’d been thinking as she picked up this and that, her mind obviously flitting about on other things: a celebrity marriage, a celebrity divorce, reading over lunch about a silly American woman on a trip into the Rocky Mountains who had thought her anti-bear spray was intended to be sprayed upon her children to keep the bears away!
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