THE MIDDLE S07E12 - Part 3 English DICTATION PRACTICE

Mike : Rough day at the office?

Axl : All I did was file things. I got like a billion paper cuts. This place is a Turkish prison with the delicious assortment of pastries. Plus, I got this crick in my neck from answering 8,000 phone calls. I am so underutilized! I'm a business major. I know major amounts of business. Now I gotta go back again tomorrow and do it all over again. Could you imagine doing the same thing everyday?

Mike : Kind of thing that would make a man drink.

Frankie : I had the worst day! That office is insane now. They put on a coupon in the paper and then they are surprised when we get behind. Hello? It is a coupon town. I'm telling you, if this is how it's gonna go, I'm not gonna last. I'm exhausted.

Axl : Call me crazy, but that sounds an awful like complaining.

Frankie : Let me finish. I'm exhausted from all this satisfaction I get from a work well done.

Mike : You got a sec? Look, you are only in 6th grade...

Brick : 8th.

Mike : 8th. Don't you think that's a little young to be tied down in a relationship?

Brick : No way! I love having a girl friend.

Mike : Right but you wanna keep your options open.

Brick : What options? It's a miracle I landed Cindy. She's like a needle in the world's largest haystack.

Mike : Look, Brick. I don't know how to sugarcoat this. I'm gonna rip the band-aid off. Cindy kissed another guy.

Brick : What?! When did this happen?

Mike : I'm not sure.

Brick : Who did she kiss? Was he Seymour? Him and his big shiny orthopedic shoe. He thinks he's such a ladies man. Wait. How do you know this?

Mike : Cindy told me a few days ago.

Brick : And you are just telling me now? What did she say. Does she wanna break up with me?

Mike : I don't know.

Brick : You don't know. You just came in here and drop a bomb like this and all you got is 'I don't know'!? 

Mike : Well,,,I I I

Brick : Well,,,I I I. you gotta have my back here. When mom flirted with that bag boy, I got his name and his Walmart I.D. number.

Mike : Look, Brick, I didn't ask to be involved in this.

Brick : Well, you are in it, now. You can't just give me half-baked information, you gotta go back there and give me some answers!

Mike : No way, I'm out, Brick. She kicked my car.

Brick : Yeah, she's unpredictable. That's one of the things I find exciting about her.

Mike : Well, you are in the 7th grade...

Brick : 8th!

Mike : 8th. My point is that you can handle this by yourself. You don't need me. Good talk. Want the door open or closed? I'll close it.

A man : This tree has been here for hundreds of years and now they want to tear it down to put up a java Jerry's. Do you really need another corporation who are bankrupting America and when we got..

Sue : Hi, Sorry. I don't mean to interrupt your tirade but I couldn't help noticing that you are a very deep person. Were you always that way or is that something you had to learn?

A man : I see your coffee cup, tree murderer! Corporate stooge! You can't run away from your hypocrisy. Shame! Shame! Shame!

Chad : You got me the wrong lunch.

Frankie : What a fulfilling day.

Mike : He's not home.

Frankie : Oh Thank God, I'm exhausted. Ugh, my God. Work sucks. Oh! Rub my feet.

Mike : I'm not rubbing your smelly feet.

Frankie : Come on, Mike, please? Oooh, yeah. Really get your thumps in there. Ugh, I hate my job. They made it sound so great at the convention with the all incentives and prizes.

Mike : Yeah, I thought you were gonna win us an escalade.

Frankie : Fat chance. Our offices is 104th in the nation. Yeah, we are back to winning the lottery or you finding a diamond at the quarry. God, it sucks, Mike. I thought my last job was bad...this job is better than ever.

Axl : Don't ask.

Sue : Professor Grant, I'm sorry. I just can't give you what you want. And believe me, I tried. I talked to a crazy guy. I watch an Anderson Cooper marathon. I stayed up all night listening to Joni Mitchell albums.

Grant : What are you talking about?

Sue : Look, I know you think being deep is important but I think other things are important. Like seeing the best in people, and believing that the human spirit is what gives us the gift to face the world with curiosity and optimism. It's nothing personal. You are obviously very deep and intelligent and a little bit handsome and that's great, but you just can't take someone who has thought one way their whole life and convince them to think your way. I'm never gonna understand your side of things and you are never gonna understand mine. And the more you force me to do it, the angrier I am gonna get, and we are just gonna go at each other forever! It's never gonna work!

Grant : That's it. Right there.

Sue : What's it? Right there?

Grant : That's the crack I was talking about.

Sue : Really?

Grant : Yes, yes! That's the passion I wanted to see. I want you to argue with me. Take a stand. Paint a painting. Going to see a band that you thought you hated. That's what college is about. Do it!

Sue : I will. I will do it. Right now. And I'm not saying that to be agreeable. I get it. I get it! We will argue later.

Turns out, there was a recipe after all. With the dash enlightenment and a scoop of tough love, Sue cracked herself open and found more than just rainbows and unicorns. It was still mostly rainbows and unicorns 'cause let's face it, Sue is always gonna be Sue.

A man : Sure. Look up in the sky and ignore all the problems down here! Sheep!

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