Day 147 of 160

Day 147: The Boundary After the Price Hike

At a jeepney terminal in Tondo before the first trip, operator Alfredo (A) and Vince (B), who has driven his jeepney for ten years, talk about the boundary, the fixed sum the driver pays the owner each day, after another rise in the price of diesel.

How to study this lesson 3 steps
  1. Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
  2. Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense.
  3. Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Tagalog. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.

Dialogue

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  1. A

    Vince, kulang ng dalawandaan ang boundary mo kahapon.

    Vince, your boundary was two hundred short yesterday.

  2. B

    Iyan nga ang pag-uusapan natin, Boss. Nagtaas na naman ang diesel, kaya halos wala nang natitira sa akin.

    That's exactly what we need to talk about, Boss. Diesel went up again, so there's hardly anything left for me.

  3. A

    Lahat naman tayo tinamaan. Ako, hinuhulugan ko pa ang bagong makina ng jeep na 'yan.

    We've all been hit. Me, I'm still paying off the new engine in that jeep.

  4. B

    Gawin na lang nating mil dos ang boundary. Sampung taon na akong walang palya, Boss.

    Let's just make the boundary twelve hundred. Ten years and I've never let you down, Boss.

  5. A

    Mil dos? Ako naman ang malulugi riyan, kaya mil kuwatro, Lunes hanggang Sabado.

    Twelve hundred? Then I'm the one losing money, so fourteen hundred, Monday to Saturday.

  6. B

    E paano ang Linggo? Walang pasok, kaya minsan, kahit pangkrudo, hindi ko kinikita.

    And what about Sundays? There's no school or work, so some days I don't even make enough for diesel.

  7. A

    Sa madaling salita, mil kuwatro sa karaniwang araw at mil dos tuwing Linggo, pero ikaw na ang bahala sa change oil.

    In short, fourteen hundred on regular days and twelve hundred on Sundays, but the oil change is on you.

  8. B

    Payag ako, Boss. Pero 'yung dalawandaan kahapon, utang muna, ha?

    Deal, Boss. But that two hundred from yesterday, I'll owe you for now, okay?

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