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事情是从弗朗西斯卡到银行去开始的。她要从丈夫阿朗佐的退休金里取钱，作为他的妻子，她想取钱不会出问题。 结果，还是出了问题:银行的职员告诉弗朗西斯卡，她不是阿朗佐的妻子。他们知道这一点，是因为阿朗佐和一个与她完全不同的女人有一个银行账户，那个人才是他的妻子。他们甚至还在电脑屏幕上向弗朗西斯卡显示了她丈夫和另一个女人的名字。 弗朗西斯卡快步赶回家，质问阿朗佐关于银行账号和另一个女人的事。阿朗佐自然是抗议，告诉她没有"另一个女人"，那是个奇怪的错误。但是弗朗西斯卡看过银行向她出示的银行记录。对她来说，这很像那个古老的理查德普拉尔的笑话:男人被抓住和另一个女人在一起时，说：“你相信谁？是我还是你那撒谎的眼睛？"就这样，弗朗西斯卡相信了自己的眼睛，并和仍在抗议的丈夫离了婚。 事实上，阿朗佐并没有欺骗妻子——那是银行犯的错误。通过法庭上的5年抗争，阿朗佐最终使得银行承认了他们的错误。结果，法院判银行付给阿朗佐16500美元的损失费。 这是否意味着阿朗佐和弗朗西斯卡可以重修旧好了？未必，弗朗西斯卡告诉杂志社记者，她还不确定是否回到她那已被证明是清白的前夫身边。阿朗则很达观：“钱是个好东西，但它不一定能弥补失败的婚姻，对吧?” That’s Some Bank Error It all began when Francesca went to the bank. She was getting money from her hus¬band Alonzo’s pension and as his wife, she didn't expect there would be any problem withdrawing the cash. So, of course, there was a problem： the people at the bank told Francesca that she wasn’t Alonzo's wife. And they knew that because Alonzo had a bank account with an entirely different woman, and she was his wife. They even showed Francesca the ac¬count on the computer screen with the name of her husband.. • and some other woman. Francesca marched home and confronted Alonzo about the bank accourl and the other woman. Alonzo naturally protested and told her that there was no “other.roman”, and that this was some weird error. But Francesca had seen the bank records, and to her, it probably seemed like the old Richard Pryor joke about a man getting caught with another woman and saying,“Who are you going to believe?Me or your own lying eyes?”In this case, Francesca believed her own eyes and divorced her still-protesting"usband. In fact, Alonzo wasn’t cheating on his wife-it was the bank that had macJethe error. After five years fighting the case in the courts, Alonzo was finally able to get the bank to admit the error. As a consequence, the court had the bank pay Alonzo and Fraxesca a- bout $16,500 in damages. Does this mean Alonzo and Francesca are going to patch things up? Not ne:sssary； Francesca told the Journal that she wasn’t sure she wanted to get back togethavith her now-proven-innocent-but-still-ex-husband. As for Alonzo, he was philosophical：“The money is good, but it doesn’t make up for a failed marriage, does it?” |
