Day 142: A Barrier in the Courtyard
At a residents' meeting in a new building in Novosibirsk, the head of the housing association puts a courtyard barrier to a taxi driver, a young father and a retired resident.
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Dialogue
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A
Уважаемые жильцы, первый пункт повестки дня: установка шлагбаума на въезде во двор. Прошу высказываться по очереди.
Dear residents, the first item on the agenda: installing a barrier at the entrance to the courtyard. Please speak one at a time.
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B
Я категорически против. Я таксист, выезжаю в пять утра, и что, каждый раз ждать, пока эта палка поднимется?
I'm totally against it. I'm a taxi driver, I head out at five in the morning, and what, I'm supposed to wait every time for that pole to go up?
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C
А я за. Во дворе дети на самокатах, а чужие машины носятся, как по трассе, и паркуются на газонах.
And I'm for it. There are kids on scooters in the courtyard, and other people's cars race through like it's a motorway and park on the lawns.
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B
Так поставьте лежачих полицейских, зачем сразу огород городить? И кто, извините, за всё это платить будет?
Then put in speed bumps, why make such a song and dance about it? And who, excuse me, is going to pay for all this?
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A
Согласно предварительной смете, установка обойдётся в сто восемьдесят тысяч, то есть по полторы тысячи с квартиры.
According to the preliminary estimate, installation will cost a hundred and eighty thousand, which is fifteen hundred per flat.
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C
Слушай, полторы тысячи один раз, а ты каждый вечер полчаса место ищешь, я же вижу из окна.
Look, it's fifteen hundred once, and you spend half an hour every evening looking for a space, I can see you from my window.
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B
Ищу, не спорю. Но если ради этого в пять утра ещё под шлагбаумом стоять, то спасибо, не надо.
I do, I won't argue. But if the price is standing at a barrier at five in the morning on top of that, then thanks, but no thanks.
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D
Позвольте старику слово. У сына в Академгородке шлагбаум открывается звонком с телефона: набрал номер и въезжай хоть в пять утра.
Allow an old man a word. At my son's place in Akademgorodok the barrier opens when you ring it from your phone: dial the number and drive in, even at five in the morning.
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A
Благодарю, Пётр Ильич, ставлю на голосование шлагбаум с открытием по звонку. Впрочем, судя по лицам, всё уже решено.
Thank you, Pyotr Ilyich, I'm putting a barrier that opens by phone call to the vote. Though judging by your faces, it's already decided.
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