Comments on: A Police Car Gets the Boot

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:24:32 +0000

Hi Lucy,

Thank you so much for the interesting topic. I have a very simple question. I understand the parking tickets are usually given by the police officers in the USA, but could you please let me know who will place a boot on an illegally parked car. Many many thanks for your great job, as always.

By: emiliano

emiliano — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:42:47 +0000

Talking about how Jeff and Lucy are important in my life, in my family´s life, I could tell all of you that Cuca and me have three daughters Eva, Fatima and Laura, when they were little girls I used to teach them a few English, I knew it was important for them to learn it and I had in mind that they need to learn it as good as possible.
It was impossible for us to send them out from Spain, to England, Irland or USA, so their English wasn´t so good as it was my desire.

My three girls have been listening to Jeff and Lucy along the last years, some more than the other, and the results are:

Eva has listened not so much as the others, but her English was good enough to be in USA twice and she could practise it at work.
She has been listening to ESL from time to time but she likes to do several things simultaneously and it´s her way of living, having lot of things in mind and without enough time to do all of them.

Fátima who has been listening to ESL along the last four years is reading several English books now, and it´s quite easy for her what it is incredible good, she is listening to Audio-English Books, watching TV or films in English, and speaking/understanding English when she is outside Spain. In fact she knows better English than me now, that´s fine.
Twice a month she came home and recharged her Ipod with all the last ESL podcast and also comments with me the last lessons of Jeff and Lucy or the book she is reading, usually she picks one or two here and left the last she has read already.
Frequently we read the same English books, she always first because is more clever and fast, and afterward she told me her opinion about it and if it´s good or not for me. While she reads three or four I read only one.

Laura, listening to ESL for one and a half year is now in Copenhagen, studying on a scholarship, and without the help of ESL lessons it would be quite difficult or nearly impossible for her to be living and studying in the university of that Denmark city.
Your help, Jeff and Lucy, has been fundamental.

Sorry Lucy, you have given us free way to write wichever thing we like…….so just in this moment I want to tell the blogger´s friends something about your labor and why I am so grateful with Jeff and you.

Bye, till tomorrow.

By: kuong do

kuong do — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:57:09 +0000

I have no car so I have not got this problem. In my country Vietnam, people use almost motorbike instead of automobile.

By: Dr. Lucy Tse

Dr. Lucy Tse — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:21:00 +0000

Thanks, everybody, for your interesting comments. We’ve enjoyed reading them and appreciate them very much!

By: Baljid

Baljid — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:02:59 +0000

Thank you Lucy & Jeff for the interesting topic. Here in Ulaanbaatar, the traffic jam is getting bigger and bigger year to year. Because the city don’t have a proper public transport system as other cities and don’t build any proper road for bicycle and pedestrians. So, the most people prefer to drive. This phenomenon causes many problems in the city from air pollution to any forms of accidents. In my opinion, parking tickets and getting “boots” will not work here. Currently, police tries a solution that is take the car off from the wrong parking place and carry them into a big place as Emiliano said. However, it cots a lot for the both side –police and car owner. In reality it doesn’t work well.

By: Farahnaz

Farahnaz — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:15:00 +0000

Hi!
In my country, Iran, one of the rules for drivers is, they must not to drive on even days with even car’s number. If they do, their carswill get boots. It’s because of air pollution. Especially in the capital.
I wish I could live in a city with no pollution. Especially air pollution. People don’t care how polluted the air is, they use their cars. We have some companies that manufacture thousands of cars and sell them without any control on the rate (number) of cars in the streets.

I want to thank you Lucy and the podcast team. You all are very intelligent, considerate, and kind teachers; actually you are devoting your time and energy to prepare all those you do. I really appreciate it. Please continue your work. We are your students and you are our best teachers.
Best regards,
Farahnaz (Iran)

By: Fabio

Fabio — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:30:51 +0000

That is an interesting post. I think if you have a house or a store and the police in that region don’t allow parking there because its cause a lot of problems to the people who depend on that space, maybe we will agree about that when the authorities always give a penalty to drivers who broke the rule. Here in Brazil every year we have a lot of news drivers on the streets and every week a huge campaign to sell more and more cars, so image that without law. I agreed as emiliano said “Car cost a sum of money”, we could spend in others things. If we change ours habits maybe some disasters in agriculture and some disorders temperatures don’t interfere in some lives who didn’t participated on this.
Thank you Dr Jeff and Lucy
Best regards,
Fabio Bastos

By: fayssal

fayssal — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:07:06 +0000

Owning a car involves a lot of expense – that’s the nature of the beast.

By: fayssal

fayssal — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:58:23 +0000

where i live it’s easy when you get a boot, put if you have strings to pull then you don’t have to worry…catch the drift lol

By: fayssal

fayssal — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:57:16 +0000

your blogs always clear the gloomy atmosphere…………

I am so lucky, you know why? Because God loves me, you know how? Because he gave a gift, you know what? It’s you dear Jeff and Lucy.

i am at your beck and call for any help i can provide just for the sake of keeping on doing your second to none job…..

Really marvelous

Your one in a million

Fayssal