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extremely important what an idiot i must seem
i basically told you i have no technological know-how
you know mr stevens i am studying the editor's manual that you gave me but
but i i haven't got to the letter o yet [Laughter]
hello is this montex typography good morning this is louis stevens of
pilgrim publishing i'd like to speak with mr emerson
oh he's in a meeting i see could you put me through to one of his
children to john or lucy please oh they are also in a meeting
fine then may i speak with mr richardson you don't mean to say that he's also in
a meeting yes i see is there anyone that i could
speak with to find out if our order has already
gone to press i'd also like some information about
deliveries yes i see they're all
in meetings could you take a message for mr
emerson ask him to call me as soon as possible asap
i'll be in my office until 4. thank you goodbye
well they certainly do like meetings at montex don't they
good morning this is gary reynolds of pilgrim publishing i would like to speak
with mr smith please ah hey there little guy uh could you
give me your father please i see he's not in uh may i speak to your
mom then i see she's out as well okay uh does
that mean that you're home alone no is there an adult in the
house ah your babysitter okay may i speak to
her yes hello this is gary reynolds of
pilgrim publishing no not penguin p-i-l-g-r-i-m
right i wanted to speak to mr smith about a new cookbook series that we're
preparing no no no you've misunderstood no i'm not
trying to sell anything i don't sell encyclopedias no listen i
work in a publishing house and mr smith is one of our authors oh
wait don't hang up could you hello well let's try someone else mr fox
good morning this is gary reynolds of pilgrim publishing
answering machine great yes good morning this is a message for
mr fox i'm gary reynolds of pilgrim publishing
and i was interested in finding out if you
would like to participate in a new cookbook series that we are publishing
soon you can contact me at your earliest
convenience and you can reach me at the number
786 okay thank you goodbye
well seems like today is just not my lucky day
no the answer phone alice hello it's anne
i need to speak to you urgently please call me as soon as you get this message
i've got lots of news to tell you about peter and sharon
i imagine you're interested anyway um
no news for now okay i'll give you a hint peter
telephoned to say that he'd called sharon about
japan and you know what she said i'm not going
to tell you call me and you'll find out okay bye
speak to you soon oh you can reach me at the office bye
bye pilgrim publishing good morning who is
this yes this is mr steven's office with whom
am i speaking oh good morning mr emerson if i'm not
mistaken you're the head of montex topography
this is rachel gordon mr steven's assistant it's a pleasure to
meet you on the phone no i'm sorry
mr stevens isn't in at the moment he just left
yes i know it's four o'clock unfortunately he was called away
unexpectedly would you care to speak with me
no don't worry there are no secrets between mr stevens and myself
yes he telephone to find out if you had already begun work on our order
and i think he also wanted to know about the means of delivery
uh-huh fine huh
mr stevens will be pleased yes uh take a note of everything in any case
i'll have him call you tomorrow morning when will you begin
at 10. okay fine goodbye mr emerson i look forward to
meeting you in person
it's friend hello no i'm sorry she's not here right
now um who's this alice
this is gary right the joker which by the way was anne's idea now i
didn't want to go along but uh she insisted no i
i don't know where she's gone perhaps to make some photocopies
would you like to leave a message okay i'll tell her to ring you as soon
as she returns are you at home no your cell phone
okay all right bye oh hey hey alice um you know uh you seem like a really
nice girl even if uh we don't know each other um may i ask
you something no it's just that um well would you like
to have dinner with me tonight but please don't say anything to anne
she might get angry no no i i know you two are such good
friends you live together okay okay don't get worked up listen i
was just joking all right all right bye alice bye what a
hot head you really can't say anything to her
such a pity i would have liked to take her out she
is very nice now what time is it now
no do you know where she's from knowledge he has a wide knowledge about
history office and official
their sister is an office worker my parents hope that i can become a god
sorry my parents hope that i can become a
government official nature and natural her husband
is a good natured man i believe that my boss she's a natural
leader refer and preference we
prefer to watch tv now does she have any particular reference
for compete and competition i think they are not able to compete with
us on price his company is in competition with a
foreign company what can i help you what can i help you
when you go to a strawberry store and then
the clerk or the shopkeeper will ask you what can i help you i'm looking for i'm
looking for that means like i want to buy
i'm looking for a pink jacket a pink jacket i'm looking for a pink
jacket i'm afraid we just have the
dark blue blue one here i use the blue one because we are
talking about the jacket okay so if you don't want to say that