[speaker001:] well Patricia I was just about to get on my tread mill and then I remembered that I didn't make a call last night and I thought I'd make one tonight
[speaker002:] well I have an exercise bicycle in my bedroom but it usually's holding clothes
[speaker001:] that's what I did with mine for a long time put it on the handlebars so I can hang them up
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and sometimes she just flops them all over the seat
[speaker002:] well that's not why I got it right how do you like your tread mill
[speaker001:] uh-huh I like it
[speaker002:] you don't get is it less boring than the bicycle or not
[speaker001:] no it's just as boring
[speaker002:] you watch TV or something while you do it
[speaker001:] I read a book while I'm doing it but I was doing that on the exercise bike
[speaker002:] oh yeah I do that too
[speaker001:] I feel like I'm getting a little better of a workout and I'm losing more weight on this than I had on the other and my legs you know how okay I'm going to turn forty this summer I was getting all dimpled up
[speaker002:] really are you a yeah
[speaker001:] and those are going away
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] so that's real good
[speaker002:] uh aren't they kind
[speaker001:] we got it at a little bit of an incline
[speaker002:] are they kind of expensive
[speaker001:] uh this one yeah this is five hundred
[speaker002:] ooh
[speaker001:] I know they get cheaper but I don't know uh-huh
[speaker002:] oh do they probably the more you pay though the better the machine you have
[speaker001:] well I hope so
[speaker002:] well you can believe that anyway right
[speaker001:] yeah I didn't buy it really my husband bought it because we we'd we'd never get out and go walking or anything and we go to the lake and we ski and swim in the summer but
[speaker002:] during the year yeah well in bad weather you know well you'd have to do something inside do you work at TI
[speaker001:] besides that uh-huh yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] not
[speaker001:] uh-huh I think your voice sounds familiar
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] where do you work
[speaker002:] I live in Arlington
[speaker001:] I wonder if we talked before
[speaker002:] where do you live
[speaker001:] I'm in Garland
[speaker002:] no uh well
[speaker001:] you sound like this girl that I talked to about books and we got into movies one night
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh no this is the first time I've done it uh my husband was just running out the door he's working at night tonight so I decided to do it I haven't talked before uh what subjects have you talked about
[speaker001:] let's see education uh social changes that we've seen in the last ten twenty thirty years yeah that one was
[speaker002:] well that's interesting it's more interesting than the treadmill and the bicycle right
[speaker001:] the most boring one was about what meal would you cook for a sit down dinner
[speaker002:] oh my goodness
[speaker001:] the other woman didn't cook too much either right
[speaker002:] they really have a lot of variety
[speaker001:] yeah they do I talked to this old woman that was a retired administrator in Ohio one night about education and she was
[speaker002:] oh a a school administrator well that could that would have been interesting
[speaker001:] uh-huh she retired but yeah and then one night I talked to these two guys no one night I talked to one guy and then a couple of weeks later I talked to the guy's roommate in Virginia about different things
[speaker002:] really well that's neat
[speaker001:] uh-huh one was about painting
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] when was the last time you painted something did you feel like you did a good job did you feel uh rewarded while you were doing it I don't know
[speaker002:] hm how long is this going to go on do you know
[speaker001:] I don't know
[speaker002:] I don't either it's interesting though I never heard of such a project before
[speaker001:] well how'd you find out about it
[speaker002:] pardon me
[speaker001:] how did you find out about it
[speaker002:] oh I don't know I guess my husband got a letter at the office I I presume and they must have been asking does your husband work with TI
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] uh-huh I have a friend that had a roommate that worked at TI and she saw it on the computer screen and they made copies of it
[speaker002:] uh-huh are you a oh so they wanted any anybody don't have to work at TI
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] well that's interesting I had no idea that was just for the employees and I couldn't understand I kept getting these calls I thought it was an advertisement and they just were also called TI you know there is Texas Industries and different things
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] I kept hanging up on them for days until my husband told me what it was
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] I didn't know
[speaker001:] well if you work for TI you're supposed to get a prize is what I heard and if you don't work for them you're supposed to get cash but then on the letter it says cash or prize
[speaker002:] yeah they really oh oh well the prizes are pretty nice he brought a booklet home and depending on how many calls I think three was the minimum but it went up to I don't know nine or ten how many calls have you made had
[speaker001:] I don't know gobs
[speaker002:] well it sounds like a lot
[speaker001:] this is going on my fourth week to do it
[speaker002:] oh my and some of the prizes were you know pretty nice but I didn't
[speaker001:] well like what tell me
[speaker002:] oh I wish I had that booklet here oh I think I do it's right here uh I'll look at the end because those would be the best ones okay
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] uh um well they have some watches that look really nice there's one that's got some diamonds on it
[speaker001:] for how many calls
[speaker002:] well it says F I haven't quite figured that out I thought it was eight or nine but seems like too nice a prize for nine just nine calls doesn't it
[speaker001:] does it say uh-huh
[speaker002:] it says
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] when we have enough calls from you you will receive in the mail a numbered certificate for your calls and and explanation how to redeem
[speaker001:] you need to start the grill
[speaker002:] for gifts are you li stening to him
[speaker001:] no I'm trying not to he's telling me to start the grill
[speaker002:] okay oh it says three for a B gift five for a C gift et cetera and this only goes up to F so I thought that was somewhere around nine but anyway it's got these beautiful watches on it let me see what else it has a uh uh clock radio that also plays uh uh you know uh tapes then it's got oh some binoculars and some pretty brass lamps it's got some oh a food processor
[speaker001:] so it's not all stuff that TI makes
[speaker002:] oh no I don't I haven't seen anything in here that TI makes the Mister Coffee the double Mister Coffee you know the two oh and there's a phone in here that's hilarious it has a button you can push if you get a call you don't like then it makes machine gun noise I've never seen that before then there's an attache case and cordless telephone and then there's a card table doesn't have any chairs just a card table oh some more jewelry suitcases and have you seen those university anniversary lamps where the little balls go around
[speaker001:] you mean the clocks
[speaker002:] yeah clocks is what I meant I can I'm going crazy my daughter's playing the piano and I can't think
[speaker001:] yeah oh God
[speaker002:] it's got one of those and well it's got a lot stuff I mean pages and pages it's got wheelbarrows I'm trying to look for something a lot of kitchen stuff lots of kitchen stuff the mixer a toaster a waffle maker popcorn popper all kinds of stuff like that and here's where here's a calculator but it's not even made by TI isn't that funny
[speaker001:] did they mail that to you or he brought it to you
[speaker002:] he brought it home I believe it came in his uh his mail here's a camera and a dustbuster and some tools someone a lot of tools a man might like you know
[speaker001:] huh yeah so you're bound to find something you want
[speaker002:] oh yeah you're bound to all kinds of phones and clocks and and uh here's more jewelry and oh there's even pictures and little porcelain things to put on a coffee table oh here's some brass animals brass candlesticks they're pretty so I'm sure you'd find something
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh
[speaker001:] well you know uh
[speaker002:] and there's even some silver plated bowls and stuff there's a lot of stuff it's a big booklet
[speaker001:] well do you know you have a ten limit a ten minute time limit well that's okay and then they come on and tell you and they tell you got five seconds to say good-bye
[speaker002:] oh no you've talked enough oh oh well it's been fun this is my first time to do it
[speaker001:] we'll keep talking if we want to come up with something else let's see
[speaker002:] right do you
[speaker001:] let's see oh I tried exercise classes and I never would go we find we joined exercising
[speaker002:] yeah my husband keeps telling me to I went I went back to college a couple of years ago so I sit and study I sit in class and I have really ballooned up since then and
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so he's says I ought to join one of those that makes you go but they're and you're saying it doesn't then you pay all that monthly stuff you know
[speaker001:] they don't either well well the first one I joined they went out of business and they transferred it to another one that was really far away
[speaker002:] that's a very common experience you know
[speaker001:] uh-huh and we were going to do it there was four of us together well then forget that it wasn't near me
[speaker002:] uh-huh no
[speaker001:] and then the second time I was going to do it at Richland College and we I just get with another friend and we'd end up just smoking cigarettes and riding around like we couldn't find the place
[speaker002:] yeah  that's funny
[speaker001:] so my husband's just discouraged me on those things
[speaker002:] right well if you if you can make yourself do the tread mill I mean gosh that's a good workout
[speaker001:] oh yeah my husband said he's never joined a course right and I got one of those Jane Fonda workout tapes that I dubbed from a friend that didn't last long I got one of those after I had a baby I think
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah right each one of those puts on a few pounds doesn't it
[speaker001:] definitely two
[speaker002:] how many children do you have yeah I do too two a girl one's in college so I don't have a have a baby anymore
[speaker001:] oh Lord you're lucky well I've got a stepdaughter she's in college
[speaker002:] oh well
[speaker001:] so there's where the money goes
[speaker002:] yeah tell me about it tell me my lucky husband's putting two of us through isn't he lucky
[speaker001:] where's you kids two
[speaker002:] well me I'm going and my daughter down in Austin
[speaker001:] we uh
[speaker002:] yeah right so I'll probably have to sell the prize I get
[speaker001:] where you going to school
[speaker002:] UTA right here
[speaker001:] and what are you doing
[speaker002:] well I'm um going to be certified as an English teacher and an ESL teacher you know English as a second language
[speaker001:] yes I do I just got my certification huh-uh
[speaker002:] you're kidding oh that's interesting
[speaker001:] the test is a booger it the test the exit test it's hard it is so hard
[speaker002:] pardon me it's hard oh no really really how are the other ones I haven't taken any of the exit tests
[speaker001:] see I didn't have to take any other exit test because I've been teaching for quite a while
[speaker002:] oh yeah before they started all this stuff
[speaker001:] but I've heard they're terrible
[speaker002:] really hum
[speaker001:] bilingual is just horrendous I've had friends fail that twice
[speaker002:] really oh really I didn't know any of this none of my friends have failed the English or the education ones
[speaker001:] good
[speaker002:] and I really ought to take those quickly while I still remember something
[speaker001:] yeah right after you get out
[speaker002:] I know I know I know how are those ESL courses I'm just starting this summer
[speaker001:] boring and they really don't help you a whole lot now see I went to ET and I took one course through TWU
[speaker002:] you're kidding uh-huh
[speaker001:] but most of the good training I've got has been through Dallas just teaching ESL see I'm a Chapter One Teacher and some of my classes are ESL
[speaker002:] oh they give you yeah oh oh