Story Fifty-eight - Sam and Betty Enjoy Going Out
Sam and Betty enjoy going out for dinner with friends.
They enjoy having a glass or two of wine with their meal when they eat out.
For that reason, it is important for them to think about how they are going to get home after dinner.
They usually drive their car to the restaurant, or to their friend's place, because it is too expensive to take a taxi.
They usually decide ahead of time who is going to drive home, since the person who drives home can't have any wine.
Sometimes they know that it will be difficult to refuse to drink with the other guests, for example, if friends are celebrating an event like a birthday.
In those cases, they have to make other arrangements.
One solution is to go together with other friends who live nearby, one of whom will have to agree not to drink.
It is always useful to have friends who simply do not drink at all.
Such people are always in demand as designated drivers.
The best situation of all is when the dinner party is within walking distance.
Unfortunately, that is not often the case in large cities.
Here is the same story told in a different way.
We used to enjoy going out for dinner with friends when we lived in the big city.
We enjoyed having a glass or two of wine with our meal when we ate out.
For that reason, we had to think about how we were going to get home after dinner.
We usually drove our car to the restaurant, or to our friend's place, because it was too expensive to take a taxi.
We always decided ahead of time who was going to drive home, since the person who drove home couldn't have any wine.
Sometimes we knew that it would be difficult to refuse to drink with the other guests, for example, if friends were celebrating an event like a birthday.
In those cases, we had to make other arrangements.
One solution was to go together with other friends who lived nearby, one of whom would have to agree not to drink.
I found it useful to have friends who didn't drink at all.
Such people were always in demand as designated drivers.
The best situation of all was when the dinner party was within walking distance.
Unfortunately, that was not often the case in the big city. So we moved to a small town and we now spend more time with our neighbours.
One: Sam and Betty enjoy having a glass or two of wine with their meal when they eat out.
How many glasses of wine do they enjoy with their meal when they eat out?
They enjoy having a glass or two of wine with their meal when they eat out.
Two: For that reason, it is important for them to think about how they are going to get home after dinner.
What is it important for Sam and Betty to think about?
It's important for them to think about how they are going to get home after dinner.
Three: They usually drive their car to the restaurant, or to their friend's place, because it is too expensive to take a taxi.
Why don't they take a taxi?
Because it's too expensive to take a taxi.
Four: They usually decide ahead of time who is going to drive home.
What do they decide ahead of time?
They usually decide ahead of time who is going to drive home.
Five: Sometimes we knew that it would be difficult to refuse to drink with the other guests.
Did we think it would be easy or difficult to refuse to drink with other guests?
You knew that it would be difficult to refuse to drink with other guests.
Six: In those cases, we had to make other arrangements.
What did we have to do in those cases?
You had to make other arrangements in those cases.
Seven: I found it useful to have friends who didn't drink at all.
What kinds of friends did I find it useful to have?
You found it useful to have friends who didn't drink at all.
Eight: Such people were always in demand as designated drivers.
What were such people always in demand as?
Such people were always in demand as designated drivers.
