Robin: Oh, hello, Penny – I was just lookin’ for Lizzie.
Penny: I didn’t think you’d come for a look at my Argyranthemums, Robin.
Robin: Well, I MIGHT like a look, Penny, if I only knew what you were talkin’ about…
Penny: No you wouldn’t – go on, she’s in the greenhouse. Tell her she can take her lunch now.
Robin: Thanks, Penny.
Penny: But please try and remember, Robin – I’m trying to run a GARDEN centre, not a drop-in centre for lovesick teenagers!
Robin: Hi, Lizzie…
Lizzie: Oh, Robin – you’re early, it’s ten minutes to my lunch break! Penny won’t be very happy if she sees us chatting when I’m supposed to be working.
Robin: It’s okay, she already told me off! But she said you could take your break now – I mean, if you want to.
Lizzie: I don’t know how you get round her! Okay, well I’ve just finished what I was doing, so it’s a good time to take a break.
Robin: Um, Lizzie…you know yesterday, like?
Lizzie: What about it?
Robin: Ah, the thing is, I think I said – well – I dunno what I said really, I can’t remember that well – but I just have a feelin’ I might’ve said somethin’ that I
didn’t mean te say.
Lizzie: You said quite a lot of things yesterday, Robin, I didn’t think you were ever going to stop talking!
Lizzie: Oh! You probably mean the bit where you said I was the nicest girl in the world! I knew you didn’t really mean it.
Robin: Ah, no, Lizzie! Not THAT bit – I DID mean it, I really did!
Lizzie: Robin, I know you did, I’m just teasing! Well, what do you think you said that you shouldn’t have, then?
Robin: Ah – it doesn’t matter. I just wanted you to forget I mentioned it anyway.
Lizzie: This conversation doesn’t even make sense! Robin, I don’t like to think there are still things you don’t feel you can talk to me about.
Robin: Well – it’s nothin’, let’s forget it.
Robin: All these plants, Lizzie! Do you know what all their names are?
Lizzie: Well, yes – Penny likes us to know about what we’re selling, so we can advise the customers, so we have to know what they’re called and how to look after them.
Robin: What’s all this lot called, then?
Lizzie: Well, these on the end are euonymus – the same as the ones at the other end. And the ones in the middle are hebes.
Robin: There must be hundreds of different plants here…I think you’re dead clever, rememberin’ all about them! I couldn’t do that.
Lizzie: It’s not that hard. When it’s something you’re interested in, it’s easier to remember, isn’t it?
Robin: I s’pose…
Lizzie: Anyway, I don’t imagine it’s any harder than you having to remember lots of song words and what have you.
Robin: Well, I thought that was hard. Anyway, we’d better go an’ get lunch, Lizzie, or your break’s gonna be over!
Lizzie: Robin – you know, don’t you, that if there’s ever anything I can help you with, you just have to say.
Robin:You help me with loads of stuff, Lizzie – an’ I really appreciate it.
Lizzie: But sometimes I wonder if there’s more I could do, if you just talked to me more and told me if there was anything –
Robin: Lizzie – can we just leave it, eh?
Lizzie: I’m sorry…
Robin: Ah no, I’M sorry, Liz, for bein’ so touchy…sometimes it just doesn’t help to try and stick a label on something.
Lizzie: It helps here! If you stick a label on a plant, you know how best to look after it.
Robin: I s’pose…but plants are different to people, aren’t they? I mean, if you saw a pant without a label, you’d still know from looking at it if it was a – a eu – what was it again?
Lizzie: Euonymus.
Robin: Yeah – well, you’d know how to look after it, cos you could see that’s what it was, an’ you’d know to treat it the same way as any other – ah –
Lizzie: Euonymus. I think I know where you’re going – you can’t label a group of people, and expect everyone in that group to be exactly the same. And even if something’s got a label –
Robin: – it doesn’t mean everyone understands it.
Lizzie: If you were a plant, Robin, I think I would have to stick you in the hothouse.
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