📙 Part 2: Describe a time when you were friendly to someone you didn't like

This episode's vocabulary

Efficient (adj.) - working or operating quickly and effectively in an organized way.

Knowledgeable (adj.) - knowing a lot.

Nonetheless (adverb) - despite what has just been said or done.

To play nice - to behave yourself

To get by - to manage or continue to exist in a state or situation where something is lacking.

Mercifully (adverb) - in a way that makes you grateful because it stops something unpleasant.

Therefrom (adverb) - from that or from there; from a thing or place that has been previously mentioned.

Demeanor (noun) - a way of looking and behaving.

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Questions and Answers

M: Roro, Mr. Rory, are you ready?

R: Yes.

M: Could you start speaking now, please?

R: Well, I think I'm going to have to completely make this one up. Since I have no idea when the last time I did this was. And people always know where they stand with me, I'm quite honest. So there we have it, it's just going to be a complete fabrication on my part. However, let's crack on. We were in one of the studios where we used to record the podcast and this must have been about, oh, I don't know, a year and a half ago, before we found the place that we really liked. And we've been recording there ever since. However, this was back in the dark times. The place that we originally went to, the place I'm speaking about now, it was located close to the center of Moscow in one of those older apartment buildings with a courtyard. It was quite easy to get to, which is perhaps one of the main reasons that we chose it. So we could just go there, do the job, and then leave. Anyway, one of the technicians wasn't exactly the most efficient person in the world, nor the most professional. And I found him really frustrating to work with. He was like, quite slow, and impolite and didn't actually seem terribly knowledgeable about the equipment we were using. I think like at one point it seemed, even I knew more than he did about it, which is never really a good sign in terms of the people that you're looking to work with. Nonetheless, it was the only studio that would host us and we had to play nice in order to get by. Mercifully, that was the first and last time we had to do anything like that. And we found this really great place. And we're, well, quite happy working therefrom, and we have been, from that point on, apart from when I left. And when we get back together, we'll have the same better place to go back to so I'm really excited about that. And hopefully, we'll be doing it sooner rather than later.

M: And why were you friendly to him?

R: Because it's what the situation demanded. And I had to maintain a professional demeanor.

M: Thank you very for your polite answer!

R: Very polite!

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