THE MIDDLE S07E12 - Part 4 English DICTATION PRACTICE

Frankie : I know you said "don't ask" but I have to ask, why do you have a bird?

Axl : Why do I have a bird? I have a bird because, apparently, when you are a business man, you get to do lots of important stuff like picking up your boss's crap from the dry cleaners. But when he forgets to give you his ticket, you get to spend a half-hour trying to convince "Dave, the manager" that you are trying to steal your boss's golf shirt which makes you to the vet where you're taking a sick bird but the guy won't take the bird because it's one minute after 6:00. So you get to go to the pharmacy where you beg them to give your bird's medicine which they inform you has to be appiled to every two hours to the bird's butt! Well, what they don't tell you is where on the bird's butt. It's officially the lowest moment of my life.

Mike : There will be others.

Axl : No, Marshmellow!

Mike : See?

Axl : Ow, this is all your fault.

Frankie : What are you talking about?

Axl : I will show you what I am talking about. Axl Heck, Star student of the week, Boom! Exibit A "I will be a rock star during the week and an astronaut on the weekends. Now that I'm older, I realize I should have reversed that but you helped me with this. All though element school and a middle school was "you can be anything you wanna be, Axl", "Don't be afraid to dream big, Axl". Then I hit high school and you pull the rug out from under me. I wanted to start in t-shirt line. I wanted to be a reality star. And now thanks to you, I'm stuck in a dead-end job for the rest of my life.

Frankie : Axl, you're just an intern. This is not what you're gonna be doing forever.

Axl : Umm, it's a little late to apply to astronaut school, so I think it is. Look at this, who are your heroes? "Mommy, Daddy and Spongebob." I guess it's just spongebob now.

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Frankie : Searching for a lost bird was really the pickle on the crap sandwich that was my day. Okay, now, where were we? Come on, give some sugar.

Mike : I rather do the bird ointment.

Frankie : Hey, what is the deal with Axl? Everything out of his mouth is either negative or complaint.

Mike : Well, you would know.

Frankie : What's that supposed to mean?

Mike : Well, I'm just saying that you and Axl are pretty the same person.

Frankie : What? You are out of your mind.

Mike : All I am saying is he comes home whinning, you come home whinning.

Frankie : I do not come home whinning.

Mike : "The tablets don't work, its' hard", "there's too many patents, it's hard", "There's no desk that you sleep under, it's hard",,,

Frankie : I'm sorry, would you prefer I not share my day with you?

Mike : I didn't know that was an option.

Frankie : Whatever, Mike. You are not gonna make me feel bad. Everybody brings their work home with them.

Mike : I don't. Last week an earthmover rolled over my foot. I didn't say a word. All the toes are completely black. You wanna see?

Frankie : I'll take your work for it. Axl and I are not alike in anyway. I happen to be a very positive person.

Mike : I don't know you are very positive that all your pie in the sky ideas are gonna work out and when they don't, you complain and give up.

Frankie : I do not have pie in the sky ideas.

Mike : Really? How's that jewelry line coming? You ever get Ophra to try on your earings.

Frankie : For your information, I have some feelers out to locate her exact address.

Mike : Okay, well, maybe when you do, you should have her one of Axl's buttrouat t-shirts that were gonna make him famous.

Frankie : Maybe I will. I think they will look great with the earings.

Mike : Look, I'm just pointing out that you and Axl are kind of the drama queens of the house.

Frankie : You know what, Mike? I don't even know why I'm arguing with you. If you think Axl and I are alike, I'm gonna take that as a compliment because I love my son and he has a lot of great quailties. You sit here in slience with stoic, black toed army, and I will be haning with the dreamers.

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Mike : What are you doing up?

Axl : Marchmellow! Just sit still, ow.

Brick : That bird is not a fan of his medicine. Dad, I'm sorry I yelled at you about the whole Cindy thing. It wasn't your fault. You were just the massanger.

Mike : Don't take it so hard, Brick. You,,,you've got a lot of life left.

Brick : It's fine. I just thought you'd get I was going through 'cause you always talk about that girl. You know, the one whose house you always rode over to on your bike.

Mike : Ah, Debbie Sullivan. Yep. She had the greatest hair. At Christmas, she used to put jinger bells in her pony tail. Man, she was something. Here's the thing, Brick. When it comes to women, there are no easy answers. I don't know much but I picked up a few things over the years even though you are only in....

Brick : 8th.

Mike : 8th. I was gonna say 8th grade. Women, in my opinion, somewhat interested in what you have to say or what you think but they are definitly interested in what you feel.

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There's nothing like a father/son talk. Of course, Brick didn't use a wod of Mike's advice. He decided it was easier to pay Cindy 10 bucks to never kiss another boy again. But nothing beats a mother/son talk.

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Frankie : So how was your day?

Axl : You do not wanna know.

Frankie : Actually, I do.

Axl : I just had this whole picture in my head of what it was gonna be like, and it's not it. I got all these ideas and my boss just doesn't want to hear them.

Frankie : I know what you mean. One time, I told Mr. Elliot this idea I had for a lobar day promotion, and he said "I got an idea, why don't hose dowon that Camry. I think a racoon gave a birth in the wheel well. Oh, you pick out the almonds, too, huh?

Axl : Yep, I like the almond flavor but the nuts, they are just too much chewing.

Frankie : Yeah, right? Like why did they have to complicate things. We don't need any heroes. Just give us the ice cream. You know, we should open an ice-cream store, together.

Axl : We would crush an icecream store. Plus I'm taking econ now, so I can run the money side of things.

Frankie : Yeah, but you have such great personality that we would that out front. .

Axl : You'd definitly want this out front. You will be undergrade play.

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