我这样做是为了保护我的良好声誉，以防有人抓住我带着脸颊上的螃蟹苹果四处走动。用橡胶球手里拿着橡胶，我可以否认脸颊上有蟹苹果。每当有人问我为什么我的脸颊上带着螃蟹苹果走来走去时，我只是张开双手，向他们展示那是我正在走来走去的橡胶球，而不是螃蟹苹果，而它们在我手中，而不是我的脸颊。这是一个好故事，但是我不知道它是否跨过，因为当您与脸颊上有两个螃蟹苹果交谈时，很难让人们理解您。
(I did it to protect my good reputation in case anyone ever caught me walking around with crab apples in my cheeks. With rubber balls in my hands I could deny there were crab apples in my cheeks. Everytime someone asked me why I was walking around with crab apples in my cheeks, I'd just open my hands and show them it was rubber balls I was walking around with, not crab apples, and that they were in my hands, not my cheeks. It was a good story, but I never knew if it got across or not, since its pretty hard to make people understand you when your talking to them with two crab apples in your cheeks.)
Quote中的发言人表达了一种渴望保持良好声誉的愿望，尽管这种情况荒谬，因为他们被认为与脸颊上的蟹苹果一起走来走去。通过将橡胶球握在手中，扬声器旨在转移注意力并创建一种替代叙事，从而使荒谬的性转移，从而使他们完全否认蟹苹果。富有想象力的策略是逃避判断并在奇怪的情况下保留其形象的一种方式。
当一个人的外观可能导致误解时，这种反思突出了通信的复杂性。发言人承认传达信息的挑战，同时处理脸颊上烤蟹苹果的荒谬性，这意味着在混淆或意外情况混淆或意外情况下澄清自己的意图和身份是多么困难。局势中的幽默强调了现实与感知之间的斗争，说明了人们将要保护自己免受误解的长度。