# The ticket


By [mark](https://paragraph.com/@mark-27) · 2022-08-04

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Tom is a little boy, and he is [**only**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/only)[1](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_1) seven [**years**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/years)[2](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_2) old. [**Once**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/Once)[3](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_3) he goes to a [**cinema**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/cinema)[4](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_4). It is the [**first**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/first)[5](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_5) time for him to do that. He [**buys**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/buys)[6](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_6) a [**ticket**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/ticket)[8](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_8) and goes in. But after two or three [**minutes**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/minutes)[9](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_9) he comes out, and buys the [**second**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/second)[10](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_10) ticket and goes in [**again**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/again)[11](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_11). After a [**few**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/few)[12](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_12) minutes he comes out again and buys the [**third**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/third)[13](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_13) ticket. Two or three minutes after that he comes out and asks for [**another**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/another)[14](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_14) ticket. But a girl asks him, "Why do you [**buy**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/buy)[7](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_7) so many [**tickets**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/tickets)[15](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_15)? How many [**friends**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/friends)[16](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_16) do you [**meet**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/meet)[17](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_17)?" "No, I have no friends here, but a big [**woman**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/woman)[18](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_18) [**always**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/always)[19](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_19) [**stops**](http://dict.qsbdc.com/stops)[20](http://www.enread.com/humors/kids/105475.html#_w_20) me at the door and cuts up my ticket."

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*Originally published on [mark](https://paragraph.com/@mark-27/the-ticket)*