{"id":2431,"date":"2025-07-20T14:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:48:14","slug":"%e7%ba%b5%e6%a8%aa%e7%be%8e%e5%9b%bd-10-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/?p=2431","title":{"rendered":"\u7eb5\u6a2a\u7f8e\u56fd \u2013 10. Negotiations"},"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=314537084&#038;p=57\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0\" frameborder=\"no\" framespacing=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Day five: Morning comes to the desert,the rain has stopped. Joe&#8217;s Auto Repair. This is Joe speaking,what can I do for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Rehecca Casey. Listen,I left you a message last night about my car. It&#8217;s sitting right here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great,do you know what the problem is? Not yet,it&#8217;ll take a couple hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of hours! I have a long trip <strong>ahead of<\/strong> me. I just got it in,call me hack in a couple of hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll call back in two hours,is that ok? All right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who is it? It&#8217;s Alherto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh,come on in! Hey,you&#8217;re still here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went to bring you a pillow last night,I thought you&#8217;d left. Oh really? Oh,man,I&#8217;m sorry. A trucker came up and pulled next to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he was making too much noise,so I went on the other side of the motel. I&#8217;m glad you didn&#8217;t leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Um,may I ask you a favor? Of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can I use your shower? Oh,yeah,sure! My back&#8217;s really <strong>stiff<\/strong> and I think a hot shower would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah,go right ahead. Um,All the other towels are wet. This is the only one that&#8217;s dry,sorry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s fine. So,what&#8217;s happening with your car?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh,it&#8217;s at Joe&#8217;s Auto Repair. Really,does he know what&#8217;s wrong with it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No,not yet,I have to call back in two hours. Oh,you know,you should be careful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes those mechanics don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re doing. Yeah,but I&#8217;m at his mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen uh,I don&#8217;t want to bother you anymore. So I&#8217;m just going to take a taxi over to the garage,thank you for everything yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey,I was\u2026I was glad to help. You,you don&#8217;t have to take a taxi. I&#8217;ll drive you over there,just wait till I&#8217;m done showering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh,it s really not necessary. Thank you,again. Bye. Excuse me,excuse me,hello.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry,how are you today,ma&#8217;am? Fine,thank you. I need to get a taxi as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A taxi? I need to go over to Joe&#8217;s Auto Repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nearest taxi is in Indio,at least an hour away. Oh,come on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honest. Well,how can I get over to the garage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you thumb a ride with one of our truckers? Hitchhike?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well sure,I&#8217;ll ask around. See who&#8217;s going. No,I don&#8217;t think so. I,I don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s safe,but thanks,anyway. Well,suit yourself,um,what about your friend,the guy who slept in the car?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Um. Hey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey. Still here,huh? Where&#8217;s your taxi?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uh,This,this is embarrassing,but I tried to get a taxi over to the garage and there aren&#8217;t any. And I hate to ask,but could you drop me off there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know,Rebecca. All right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure,I&#8217;d be happy to take you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look,I&#8217;m starving,let&#8217;s get a bite to eat,ok? Well,we should go over there,don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The garage said two hours,right? Yeah,I guess there&#8217;s no rush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desert,Center Cafe? We don&#8217;t have a choice,I don&#8217;t know about you,but I need to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m starving,aren&#8217;t you hungry? Yeah,I guess so..Yeah,I&#8217;m pretty hungry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,where exactly are you going? California. San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re kidding. No,why do you think I&#8217;m kidding?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I&#8217;m from San Francisco,that&#8217;s where I live. Really? What a coincidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it? Small world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what are you going to do in San Francisco? I got accepted to the San Francisco College of Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh,and what do you wanna do when you finish music school? Well,I hope to be a songwriter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What kinda songs do you write? Folk and pop,with a little jazz influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe you re moving to San Francisco. I know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alberto,do you know what this is? That is a dream catcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s a dream catcher? Well, according to Native American legend,if you place a dream catcher over your bed at night,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it catches all the bad dreams,and it lets in only the good ones. How wonderful, we all need a dream catcher in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, parts, Iabor, and, oh yeah, there&#8217;s the <strong>towing<\/strong>. I had hoped to be on my way to San Francisco by now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God, this feels like a bad dream. Yeah, where&#8217;s a dream catcher when you need one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, we have two problems: first, I need your OK on this before I can go ahead with the work. Sign right here, and, second, I have the fuel pump, I think, excuse me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sorry. Calm down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Got it right here, but I don&#8217;t have the right <strong>gasket.<\/strong> I&#8217;ll have to send out for one. Send out! Where?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I usually get my parts from a place in Mason, but. . . How long will that take? I was about to say, but it&#8217;ll take at least a day or two, and that&#8217;s if they have what I need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what&#8217;ll the whole thing cost? Well, lemme check the price of the gasket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me see, around five hundred and twenty dollars. Oh, no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I noticed there&#8217;s a problem with the <strong>steering<\/strong>, tie rods, I&#8217;m afraid. Well, is it something that can wait?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, can I, can I wait till I get to San Francisco? You shouldn&#8217;t take a chance with your steering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s right. And how much will that cost?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Off the top of my head, another two hundred fifty to three hundred. I need to think about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You want my advice? Let him fix it. I need to think about this, give me a few minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How long will it take your girlfriend to make up her mind? She&#8217;s, she&#8217;s not my girlfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217;s just a friend, and I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;ll make a decision quickly. So, what do you wanna do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t have eight hundred dollars to spend on that car. I have to sell it, is there any chance that you would buy it from me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buy your car? Yeah, how are you gonna get back to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the money, I can take a bus to San Francisco. It&#8217;s not a bad car. 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