Hello, George. I wanted to speak to you yesterday, but you weren't at your usual place for lunch.
No, I had a free day from the newspaper office, because I worked so much overtime last week.
Oh, I see. You had a holiday.
Well, I stayed at home and looked after the baby.
What? You took care of the baby? Whose baby?
Oh, it was my sister's baby. She wanted to go shopping in the morning, so I stayed at home and did a lot of useful things.
Oh?
Yes, I mended my radio, washed a shirt and some socks and cleaned out the drawers of my desk.
I don't call that a holiday. I wanted to ask you to a concert last night. The one at the town hall near where we lived.
That's funny. My officer called me in the afternoon and asked me to go and write an article about the concert. I notice that you weren't there, but your friend Mary was.