Conversation 39 - Excerpt

Dr Q: Well, I hope you get some answers this fall.

Dr P: We’ll get started at it, anyway. I’m recording body weight, and we should start getting some returns on the leg bands in, oh, December or January, I think.

Q: If your nets arrive.

P: Yes, if my equipment arrives. As a matter of fact, I’ve got to run. I want to stop by the campus post office once more before my next class, just to see if it’s come in.

Q: Won’t they ring you when it arrives?

P: Not the US Postal Service! I should’ve asked them to send it UPS. Save a nickel, spend a dollar. I should’ve learned that by now.

Q: Well, with the budgets they give us on these grants, we kind of get stuck in that mindset, don’t we?

P: I have, anyway, I guess. Talk to you later, Charlie.

Q: OK. Good luck, Frank.

P: Thanks.