Fatima: Hello.
Rob: Uh, hi, Fatima. This is Rob calling.
Fatima: Oh.
Rob: Please don’t hang up. I need to apologize for my atrocious behavior last
night. I was a real jerk and I’m really, really sorry.
Fatima: I appreciate the apology. Thanks, but I have to go now.
Rob: Hold on one second, please! I want to explain. I thought I was boring you
at the beginning of the date and that’s why I started in on the drinks. I’m not
normally a lush, really! I was nervous and worried that things weren’t going well,
and I thought a couple of drinks would loosen me up.
Fatima: Okay, I understand that, but that doesn’t excuse the groping.
Rob: Groping? What groping?
Fatima: You don’t remember? You insisted on a goodnight kiss.
Rob: I did? It’s all a blur. I don’t remember anything after you called me a
creep.
Fatima: You tried to kiss me and I walked out. Can you blame me?
Rob: No, I can’t. I deserved much worse. After that, I can also understand why
you’d never want to speak to me again. Is there any way I can make it up to
you?
Fatima: I really don’t know…
Rob: I promise not to have a drop of alcohol.
Fatima: I’ll have to think about it.
Rob: And I’ll have both of my hands tied behind my back the entire time.
Fatima: Maybe. Let me sleep on it.
At least it wasn’t a “no.” There’s a glimmer of hope for a second chance!
[end of dialogue]
Rob: Uh, hi, Fatima. This is Rob calling.
Fatima: Oh.
Rob: Please don’t hang up. I need to apologize for my atrocious behavior last
night. I was a real jerk and I’m really, really sorry.
Fatima: I appreciate the apology. Thanks, but I have to go now.
Rob: Hold on one second, please! I want to explain. I thought I was boring you
at the beginning of the date and that’s why I started in on the drinks. I’m not
normally a lush, really! I was nervous and worried that things weren’t going well,
and I thought a couple of drinks would loosen me up.
Fatima: Okay, I understand that, but that doesn’t excuse the groping.
Rob: Groping? What groping?
Fatima: You don’t remember? You insisted on a goodnight kiss.
Rob: I did? It’s all a blur. I don’t remember anything after you called me a
creep.
Fatima: You tried to kiss me and I walked out. Can you blame me?
Rob: No, I can’t. I deserved much worse. After that, I can also understand why
you’d never want to speak to me again. Is there any way I can make it up to
you?
Fatima: I really don’t know…
Rob: I promise not to have a drop of alcohol.
Fatima: I’ll have to think about it.
Rob: And I’ll have both of my hands tied behind my back the entire time.
Fatima: Maybe. Let me sleep on it.
At least it wasn’t a “no.” There’s a glimmer of hope for a second chance!
[end of dialogue]
“Atrocious” (atrocious) means very bad, awful,terrible, something that’s really bad – it’s atrocious.
ReplyDeleteRob says that he was nervous andhe thought a couple of drinks would loosen him up. To “loosen up” is a two-wordphrasal verb meaning to make someone more relaxed, more friendly; moresociable, we might say. If someone says to you, “Loosen up!” they mean relax,don’t be so nervous.
ReplyDelete“Groping” is when youtouch someone, usually with some sort of sexual intent. If you are a man in asubway and there’s a beautiful girl standing next to you – woman, if you try totouch her in some sexual way that would be considered groping.
ReplyDeleteRob says, “No, I can’t. Ideserved much worse” – I should have gotten something worse, perhaps a slapon the face!
ReplyDeleteWhen someone tellsyou they want to “sleep on” something, they mean they want a chance to thinkabout it more, at least one more day and see what they decide, to give themmore time to make a decision.
ReplyDeleteA “glimmerof hope” means a small amount of hope, but still it’s possible.
ReplyDeleteTo “make it up to” someonemeans to do something nice for someone as an apology for something bad thatyou had done earlier.
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