今週のワンポイント英会話 第872回 To drink dairy.〜

To drink dairy. = To drink milk.

牛乳（乳製品）を飲む。

If you want to stay healthy, drink dairy.

https://youtu.be/K_AscQ-NtDs

〜ニューヨーク英語学院〜

Drive through.

Recently a taxicab drove through the front door of a coffee shop. 

Luckily, no one was hurt. 

Is this the start I’d drive through coffee?

~Tim~

Things that my father said.

Things that my father said. 

My father was an old fashion salesman who always had a glad hand and a joke for his customers. 

When a customer greeted him with "how's your business?"

 My father would always answer,

 "Business is like sex. When it is good, it's very good 

but when it is bad, it is still good!"

~Tim~

Kindness

I was on my way to an appointment in heavy rain. 

I have to use crutches so I must wear a rain suit. 

While crossing a busy street in Umeda,  

a business man in his late fifties parked his car and 

came to me and sheltered me from the rain with his umbrella. 

He escorted me to my appointed location 

and he gave me a smile before he left. 

Only in Japan you will find this kindness.

~Tim~

~ニューヨーク英語学院~

Your house.

The news is always 24/7 about president Trump. 

There is too much interest in this news. 

I wish people would pay attention to their own house 

rather than the White House.

~Tim~

Good lesson before .....

You might remember the blog in which I told you about the young couple who were getting engaged. They came to my office last night. I asked them what they hoped for in the future.
 His reply was that he wanted to have her love forever. She said that she wanted a lot of money. He of course was shocked but it was a good lesson. We have a saying in America.

' Think before you leap.'

~Tim~

The mayor

If the Tigers' Kakefu wanted to become the mayor of Osaka, he would win the election easily. He is for sure the most popular person in Osaka.

~Tim~

Good maker

Yesterday when I was passing out fliers I noticed young and middle aged men would stand beside me and young women would soon come to meet them. They would speak for a few seconds and then leave together. This went on for a while until I finished. Later a friend told me that they were call girls and that they were using me as a marker. When a customer would call from out of the area they would tell him to stand next to the tall white haired foreign guy who is handing out fliers and I'll meet you there.
I guess that I'm a pretty good marker.

~Tim~

Newspaper and drink

My newspaper didn't come this morning. No big thing but an hour later my 75 years old newspaper guy popped in my office with my paper. He said that his bicycle had a flat tire so he was late. He then said to make it up to he would take me out drinking. 　I wonder.....
 In America if my paper was late, would the paper boy take me out drinking?

〜Tim〜

make it up to : 埋め合わせをする, お詫びに〜する

pop : 突然現れる

Young woman at Umeda station

I met a young woman dressed in a company uniform the other day at Umeda station. She said that she had checked my web site and she found out that my hobby was weight lifting. She said that her hobby was "Bally". I said "Bally ball"? She then started to dance around gyrating her hips. She meant belly dancing!

~Tim~

*gyrating : gyrate 旋回する

At 8:00

Japanese middle aged guys really love the WASH-TOILET system.  In my building, there is only one "WASH-TOILET system"  and it's on my floor.  Every morning at 8:00 there is a line of middle aged men pacing nervously in front of the restroom on my floor.

*WASH-TOILET system : 温水洗浄便座
*line : 行列