Mary: I usually go by car too. Jack takes me because he passes my office on his way to the factory. But this week he works in a factory in the opposite direction: so I queue like you.
Peter: Here's a 9 now. You don't come on it or you think I'll take the 9. If I wait for a 14, Mary: I might be late, and if you are late at my office everyone looks at you.
Mary and Ann wait outside a telephone box. Inside the box a boy dials a number.
Mary: You know that boy?
Ann: Yes, he's a friend of my brother's. He phones his girl friend every day from this box.
Mary: Where does he come from?
Ann: He comes from Japan. He's a very clever boy;
he speaks four languages.
Mary: I wonder what he speaks now...
Ann: Well, his girl friend comes from Japan too; so I suppose he speaks Japanese.
It is 8.30. Tom and Ann have breakfast. They both open their letters.
Tom: No one ever writes to me. All I get is bills!
You haven't anything interesting?
Ann: I've got a letter from Hugh. He says he is coming to London next week and wants us to meet him for lunch.
Peter: You have traffic wardens in your country?
Pedro: No, I don't think so. You don't see them in my town anyway. What exactly do a traffic warden do?
Peter: He walks up and down the street and if a car stays too long at a parking place or parks in a no-parking area he sticks a parking ticket to the windscreen.