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After Liverpool
James Saunders
James Saunders
10
[The MAN is talking]
W: Just a minute, can you stop?
M: What's the matter?
W: I'm bored with this conversation.
M: You're what?
W: The conversation doesn't interest me.
M: Oh?
W: Can you talk about something else?
M: Certainly, if you want me to. I do apologize for boring you.
W: Not you, your conversation. You weren't to know, I was trying to look interested. My fault.
M: You mean you shouls have looked bored?
W: No, I should have told you straight away I wasn't interested.
M: Hm. Does this often happen?
W: What?
M: Finding yourself saddled with a crashing bore?
W: You are not a crashing bore.
M: Just an ordinairy bore.
W: I've offended you.
M: Me? Why should I be offended. You're the one who should be offended, having put up with a crashing bore.
W: You are not...
M: After all, if one's a crashing bore it's best that one's told. Thank you. For telling me. That I'm a...
W: Stop it.
M: Am I boring you again?
W: Listen. Stop it and listen, be quiet and shut up and listen. It's quite simple. You were talking about something which didn't interest me. I should have let you know at once. Instead I pretended to be interested. It was my mistake. I apologize.
M: Oh, don't apologize, I shouls apologize, I'm the bore.
W: You're not listening...
M: And now I have news for you. May I tell it, at the risk of boring you?
W: Go on.
M: This conversation is boring me. So shall we change the subject? Or better still, since we both find each other such crashing bores, perhaps I'll put the television on.
W: I don't want television, I want to talk to you.
M: In spite of the fact that I'm...
W: Please. Stop it, please, please.
M: The sad thing is, I was only telling you that story because I thought you might be interested, It was of no interest to me.
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Bullet With Butterfly Wings, какие всё таки разные люди сюда заходят .)