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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 823: Dealing with a Bothersome Person.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 823. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from beautiful Los Angeles, California – oh, and the Center for Educational Development.

This episode, like all of our episodes, has a Learning Guide. I strongly recommend you take a look at the Learning Guide; it contains a lot of good information that will help you improve your English. Go to eslpod.com to download the one for this episode.

This episode is a dialogue between Melissa and Conan about someone who is bothering one of them, someone who is making problems for one of them. Let’s get started.

Melissa: I hate that guy Reuben. He’s always getting in my face.

Conan: Ooh, I sense some serious sexual tension between the two of you.

Melissa: Sexual tension? Are you out of your mind? He does nothing but give me a hard time.

Conan: That’s because he’s trying to get your attention.

Melissa: If he likes me, why doesn’t he try to get my attention by showing off,