"Life in the office" - chapter 4

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JANE:       Hello! Sir! May I come in?

ROBERT:    Of course Jane. How may I help you?

JANE:        You’ve asked me to come at one … about plane tickets, Sir.

ROBERT:    Oh! Yes! Of course! I’ve completely forgotten  about it. Too much work and too many things  to do at the same time. Sit down Jane, please.

JANE:        You mentioned that you need one ticket round trip to Chicago for next Wednesday.
ROBERT:    Change of plans, I am afraid. I need two tickets to Boston for Sunday. Then I need to get to Chicago on Wednesday and be back here by next Saturday.

JANE:        Will you need two tickets to Chicago from Boston and two tickets back here as well?

ROBERT:    Exactly

JANE:         Who is the second person, if I may ask. I need the other person’s name. Is that going to be your wife, Sir? Or perhaps someone else.

ROBERT:    Don’t be so suspicious. I am not married Jane. The other person is Miss Alice Hopkins and she is my fiancée.

JANE:        Miss Alice Hopkins. Very well Sir. Two single rooms or one double room?

ROBERT:    One double room. A big one.

JANE:        Anything in particular that I should know?

ROBERT:    Yes. Alice is a vegetarian and she loves roses.

JANE:        Very well Sir. I will get back to you as soon as I book your flight.

FEW MINUTES LATER

AIRLINES:    TGFD. How may I help you?

JANE:        Good afternoon, Mme. I need two tickets from Warsaw to Boston for Sunday.

AIRLINES:    We have one flight on that day. Let me see …. departs at 2 pm … or you can fly to Paris at 8 in the morning and we have a flight from there at noon so that would save you two hours.

JANE:        Departure at 2 pm will be just fine.

AIRLINES:    Business or economy?

JANE:        Business, please. And we also need two tickets from Boston to Chicago for next Wednesday and two tickets from Chicago back to Warsaw for Saturday. All business class.

AIRLINES:    We depart from Boston to Chicago every two hours starting 7 in the morning.
JANE:        Can you book my flight for 9 in the morning then?

AIRLINES:    Of course. 9 am that is. We have a problem with the flight from Chicago to Warsaw.  We don’t have any free places.

JANE:        Oh! no! Can you suggest anything?

AIRLINES:    You can fly from Chicago to London at 4:45 pm and take the flight from London to Warsaw at 9 pm. You should be home by 11 pm.

JANE:        OK. I’ll take it. Oh! And one of the people is a vegetarian so please make a note of it.

AIRLINES:    Certainly Mme. We have two tickets from Warsaw to Boston for Sunday, departure at 2 pm. Then two tickets from Boston to Chicago for Wednesday at 9 am and two tickets for the flight from Chicago to London departing at 4:45 pm and two tickets for the  flight to Warsaw from London departing at 9 pm. Is everything correct?

JANE:        Absolutely.

AIRLINES:    Now I need those people’s names.

JANE:        Robert Brown and Alice Hopkins

AIRLINES:    Very well,  Mme. That will be two thousand and fifty eight dollars. Cash at the airport or  credit card.

JANE:        Please charge it to our company’s credit card.

AIRLINES:    Can you give me the credit card number then?

JANE:        It’s Master Card. The number is 3456 4564 5678 4565

AIRLINES:    Let me confirm that. It’s 3456 4564 5678 4565

JANE:        That’s correct. The payee is XYZ company.

AIRLINES:    Thank you very much. Tickets can be picked up at the airport counter two hours before the flight departure. Will there be anything else?

JANE:      No. Thank you very  much.

VOCABULARY

round trip - podróż tam I z powrotem
suspicious - podejrzliwy
double room - pokój dwuosobowy
departure - odlot
confirm - potwierdzić