E-assignment 2: Dialogue 1

a) Two old ladies start chatting while feeding the ducks by a pond. They've met once before, but it was ages ago in a different part of the world and they don't recognise each other at first.

- May I sit here?
- Of course! Go ahead, dear, I don't mind.
- Thank you... Wonderful weather today!
- Oh, it surely is. We don't often have days as warm as these in Autumn. Got to take the opportunity to get some sun when it decides to come out.
- Indeed. People can say what they will of Britons being ungrateful, but good weather sure is appreciated; we flock to the sun like ducks to breadcrumbs! Here you go little fellow.
- We all like to have what we don't often get, I suppose. You ever heard of a Brit appreciating rain?
- As a matter of fact, yes, I've heard of several. But they're all living abroad, I'm afraid.
- See: the grass is always greener, the milk is always sweeter, and so on. A universal truth...
- You married?
- Happily so for sixty-two years. You?
- No... I never could settle for just one man, truth be told. Held on to one long enough to get me some children though. That's the best choice I ever ma-
- Shoo! Shoo! Away with you!
- Calm down, its only a duck.
- A duck may only be a duck when it's a few feet away, but I tell you, when my husband was young, he got too close and his finger was bit right off!
- Now ain't that quaint? There can't be many men that's been mutilated by ducks, and fancy me hearing of two during my lifetime!
- You heard of another?
- Oh yes, met him, actually. In Munich, this was, 1951, I if I remember correctly. A charming man, had a bit of a romance we did, and I must say: his nine remaining fingers had no trouble being all over me without the aid of a tenth! A shame he was in a relationship, though. Nice girl, a bit timid perhaps.
- Munich you say...
- Yes, lovely city. Ever been there?
- That's where me and my husband spent our honeymoon.