Spoken language and literature: Activity

John...John...John. Okay. John. John. Look. The Glengarry Highland's leads, you're sending Roma out. Fine. He's a good man. We know what he is. He's fine. All I'm saying, you look at the board, he's throwing...wait, wait, wait, he's throwing them away, he's throwing the leads away. All that I'm saying, that you're wasting leads. I don't want to tell you your job. All that I'm saying, things get set, I know they do, you get a certain mindset... A guy gets a reputation. We know how this...all I'm saying, put a closer on the job. There's more than one man for the... Put a...wait a second, put a proven man out...and you watch, now wait a second - and you watch your dollar volumes...You start closing them for fifty 'stead of twenty-five...you put a closer on the...

Adam: Uhm, something that I, I saw a lot was that when people were... Uhm... I’m blanking.

Richard: Can we take that again?

Adam: Yes. Excuse me, I’ve got to do what I did last time. I hate this. I’ve got to get this out. I won’t be a second, Richard. I’m just going to go berserk for a while, and then I’ll start again. [Pause.] Ah, thank you. Can we dance for a bit, actually?

Richard: Okay, Adam.

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