Tickets, please.
GEORGE: | Two return tickets to London, please. What time will the next train leave? |
ATTENDANT: | At nineteen minutes past eight. |
GEORGE: | Which platform? |
ATTENDANT: | Platform Two. Over the bridge. |
KEN: | What time will the next train leave? |
GEORGE: | At eight nineteen. |
KEN: | We've got plenty of time. |
GEORGE: | It's only three minutes to eight. |
KEN: | Let's go and have a drink. There's a bar next door to the station. |
GEORGE: | We had better go back to the station now, Ken. |
PORTER: | Tickets, please. |
GEORGE: | We want to catch the eight nineteen to London. |
PORTER: | You've just missed it! |
GEORGE: | What! It's only eight fifteen. |
PORTER: | I'm sorry, sir. That clock's ten minutes slow. |
GEORGE: | When's the next train? |
PORTER: | In five hours' time! |