{"id":1910,"date":"2025-05-11T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2025-05-11T20:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:41:08","slug":"%e7%ba%b5%e6%a8%aa%e7%be%8e%e5%9b%bd-06-saying-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/?p=1910","title":{"rendered":"\u7eb5\u6a2a\u7f8e\u56fd \u2013 06. Saying goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"350\"  src=\"\/\/www.bilibili.com\/blackboard\/html5mobileplayer.html?isOutside=true&#038;aid=714777490&#038;bvid=BV1jX4y1G7sk&#038;cid=314535959&#038;p=53\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0\" frameborder=\"no\" framespacing=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi, Miss Casey, I&#8217;m sorry I&#8217;m late for my lesson. Hi, Melissa, how are you doing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fine. Good. Listen, before we begin, I have to tell you something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What? I m going back to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are? Why? To study music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you&#8217;re the best music teacher, and you know lots of music. Thanks, but I want to be better, but I&#8217;m sad because the school is far away and I won&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where is it? San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where&#8217;s that? We&#8217;re here and San Francisco&#8217;s all the way over here, in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I won&#8217;t be able to see you? Yes, I&#8217;m leaving, but, let&#8217;s see, we have one more lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to find you a good teacher, ok? OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you want to play first? Can we play the blues?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure, you know Travelin&#8217; Blues, right? Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let s play that. OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Major. A<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think, Frank. . . am I nuts? No, you&#8217;re not crazy. Rebecca&#8217;s twenty-eight. I mean, it&#8217;s about time she got a car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey, what do you think of this one here? No way! Look at the price!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She needs a small car-something she can drive around Boston. Frank . . . she&#8217;s driving all the way to San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>San Francisco? Yeah, alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217;s gonna drive three thousand miles . . . by herself? Is that safe? I think she should fly if she insists on going<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but she said she&#8217;d rather put the money in a car that she can use when she&#8217;s out there. I&#8217;d never drive that far by myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know that daughter of yours is pretty independent. Hey, now here&#8217;s a car to drive across country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She got into a good school, Frank. The San Francisco College of Music. Music school? That&#8217;ll never <strong>pay off. <\/strong>You can&#8217;t make any money in music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re telling me! I thought she should go to a local college. Well, that makes more sense to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why does she have to go all the way to San Francisco? Well, the school out there accepted her and they offered her financial help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well that&#8217;s good, right? I guess so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey, if you&#8217;re so worried about this, why don&#8217;t you <strong>talk her out of it<\/strong>? I can&#8217;t change her mind. She&#8217;s <strong>all fired up<\/strong> about the idea, says it&#8217;s her dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, but dreams don&#8217;t pay bills. Yeah, well there&#8217;s nothing I can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this is what she wants, maybe I can help her with a car. 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That&#8217;s a lotta mileage, Frank, Let&#8217;s have that mechanic of yours, what&#8217;s his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sammy? Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, we&#8217;ll tell the salesman we want our mechanic to take a look at it before we pay anything. And we take it for a test drive, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You got it. Ok, let&#8217;s make a deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br>What&#8217;s the score? Three to nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three to nothing? All right, Mary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C&#8217;mon, Mary, you can do it, Mary. Put it right by her now, Mary. C&#8217;mon, she&#8217;s no batter, let&#8217;s go Mary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how do you feel about Rebecca leaving home? Uh, I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m OK, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re going to miss her, aren&#8217;t you? Yeah, but at least I get to move into her room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey, don&#8217;t take all my potato chips! Don&#8217;t be so <strong>stingy<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come on, girl-put it in there, one more out! Lets go, Mary! Oh, this is ridiculous, she was . . . she was out, there was no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-two to two, what happened to you? \uff12\uff12 Hey, how about a little sympathy? I lost my last <strong>softball <\/strong>game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poor you! You can&#8217;t do it all by yourself, if it wasn&#8217;t for that <strong>umpire<\/strong>. Yeah, I think he was working for the other team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the heck, it&#8217;s only a game, right? I think I&#8217;m heading home, I&#8217;ll see you later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All right, thanks for coming. Oh, it was fun . . . seeing you get beat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re supposed to be cheering me on. Tomorrow night we&#8217;ll go car hunting again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Absolutely, Bye. Bye, Sandy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bye! Thanks for the potato chips! Hey, the team&#8217;s going to the Sports Bar, do you wanna come?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t. Jack and I are going to the movies. I still don&#8217;t know what you see in that guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re not me, OK? Now, when are you leaving for San Francisco?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week from Saturday. I drive out real early. Let&#8217;s hope you have a car by then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will! Oh, <strong>make room<\/strong>, move that glove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh my gosh! You guys, you didn&#8217;t have to do this, this is too much! OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re in our hearts, as you well know. We&#8217;ll think of you, wherever you go, you&#8217;ll be a <strong>hit<\/strong> in San Francisco!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks. OK, hurry up, hurry up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did you guys get me? A Red Sox jacket! This is great!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a great present. Thanks, you guys! Ah, what to say . . . 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