Procurando alguma coisinha leve, pra cima, para desviar a atenção da turbulência, da violência, da lambança geral. Também para variar das pegadinhas e dos poeminhas. Acabei achando um textículo que tem como base uma joke envolvendo Sherlock Holmes e seu amigo Dr. Watson. Há alguns anos, talvez muitos, peguei essa joke como base e costurei um texto legal, ótimo para explorar e explicar, entre outros aspectos gramaticais, a formação do Simple Past dos verbos regulares e de alguns irregulares, que foi incluído em um dos volumes do Password: Read and Learn, uma coleção para o ensino fundamental em parceria com a querida amiga Profa. Kátia Tavares. Coloco aqui just for fun, sem pegadinhas, nem testes, só a historinha, só pra ler e curtir.

One summer evening Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson went camping. They put up their tent, ate one or two sandwiches, drank a bottle of wine and after some conversation each of them got into his sleeping bag and tried to get some sleep. 

Some hours later, Holmes woke up and decided to tell Watson something important. He touched his friend´s arm and said, "My dear Watson, look up and tell me what you can see."

"I can se thousands and thousands of stars," said Watson.
Holmes looked at his friend and asked him a question, "And what does that mean?"

The doctor thought for a moment and then answered, "First: astronomically, it means that there are thousands and thousands of galaxies and probably millions of planets. 

Second: astrologically, I can see that Saturn is in Leo and so I´m sure that we´re going to have a lucky day. 

Third: in terms of time and according to the position of the Pole Star I can see that it´s about 3:15 a.m. 

Fourth: in religious terms, I can see that there is a God, the Almighty God, and right now I feel small and insignificant. 

Fifth: in meteorological terms, I can see that we´re going to have a lovely sunny day. Am I correct?"

For a moment Holmes remained in silence, but then he smiled and said, "Watson, you fool! All it means is that someone stole our tent!"

Moral: Life is quite simple. We are the ones who make it complicated.
Outra conclusão que se tira é que o Dr. Watson era um tremendo de um chato.