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SCOTT:Do you work for the news?
HEATHER:Yes.I do.I'm a reporter.
SCOTT:Where's the camera?
HEATHER:Oh,I'm not a TV reporter.I'm a radio reporter. SCOTT:Oh.
HEATHER:Are you disappointed?
SCOTT:No.Did something happen?
HEATHER:Do you mean,like a fire?
No.I'm doing an interview.That's part of my job,too.
SCOTT:How come you're a reporter?
HEATHER:Oh,I like this job.I used to work in an office.I hated that.
SCOTT:Yeah? HEATHER:Yeah.I worked in the mailroom.
I was in that one room all day,you know? So I quit that job.
HEATHER:Guess what I did next. SCOTT:What?
HEATHER:I worked in a place where they raised rats for laboratories.
SCOTT:Really? HEATHER:Yeah. SCOTT:Cool.
HEATHER:Then I went to college.Then I got this job.
SCOTT:How does that work?
HEATHER:Do you want me to show you?Come on.We'll do an interview.
MRS.FORD:So,where are your father and sister?
SCOTT:Mom,listen.She interviewed me.But not for television.
She's only on the radio.
MRS.FORD:Who's on the radio?
SCOTT:The reporter.She told me she's on the radio.
MRS.FORD:Mm.
SCOTT:And you know what?She said she quit her job because she hated it.
MRS.FORD:As a reporter?
SCOTT:No.In an office.She had to stay in one room all the time.
SCOTT:And then,you won't believe this.She said she fed rats.
MRS.FORD:What?
SCOTT:You know the rats they use in science? MRS.FORD:Yes.
SCOTT:Those rats.She fed them.She told me.
But Mom isn't that so cool?I want to do that.
MRS.FORD:Feed rats?
SCOTT:No.Be a reporter.
MRS.FORD:Mm.That's good,honey.
SCOTT:Except I'm going to be on TV.
DEAN:Can you turn it on?Fine.First you turn the computer on.Like this.
Then you turn on the monitor.Then you turn on the printer.
GEORGE:So far,so good.Now,what?
DEAN:You open the program
Either click on the icon or type the command on the keyboard.
GEORGE:OK.So I hit here to...What happened? I lost it.It's gone.
DEAN:Relax.When that happens.just hit these two. GEOROE:Why?
DEAN:Well.It says to the computer,"Don't do what I just told you to do."
GEORGE:OK.
DEAN:Go on.Hit those two keys.
GEORGE:OK.I type the correct command,and...hey!
DEAN:You're in the program.
GEORGE:Great.
DEAN:That wasn't so hard,was it?
GEORGE:Nope. GEORGE:What's next?
DEAN:Now just start at the beginning,and work your way to the end.Good luck. |