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! |