Learn English Through Story - Bob the Thief - Wednesdays with Bob #17

Hi, Bob the Canadian here.

This is kind of a little intro

to the "Wednesdays with Bob" video for today,

where I tell a little bit of an embarrassing story.

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I'll tell a little story about when I was a kid.

I'm not sure I wanted to share this story,

but I think you'll like it.

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Hi, Bob the Canadian here.

Welcome to "Wednesdays with Bob" number 17.

Remember, even though this isn't an English lesson,

there are word-for-word English subtitles

and the complete transcript below if you need it.

Today I thought I would tell you a little story

about something I did when I was a kid.

When I was about 10 or 11 years old,

I can't remember exactly, a man came to the farm

to fix one of the pieces of farm equipment for my dad.

And I'm not sure exactly what was broken,

but my dad and the man who came to the farm,

they worked on this piece of equipment.

The man had lots of tools and as he was fixing things,

at a certain point, he needed his knife,

and out of his pocket, he took a really nice little,

what we would call a jackknife.

So that's a knife with a blade that opens and closes.

And he opened up the jackknife and he did something

while he was fixing the piece of farm equipment.

And then he closed it and he set it down.

And as he continued to work on the farm equipment,

he kinda kicked it a few times and it kind of moved away

from him to a spot where it was close to me.

And I thought it was a really cool knife.

I thought it was really neat. I thought it was awesome.

And I wanted it.

So I kicked it away a little bit.

I kicked it away and I covered it up with some hay.

There was some hay on the ground

and I just kinda stood there

and watched while he continued fixing the farm equipment.

And he kept talking with my dad

and eventually it was fixed,

and he cleaned up all his tools, except for the knife.

And he put all his tools in his toolbox,

and he went back to his truck,

and my dad and him were just standing, talking by the truck.

By the way, I have never shared this before

but one of the reasons I think I am good at YouTube

is because I inherited from my dad the ability to talk.

My dad was a talker. He really liked talking to people.

And I don't know if I've shared this before either,

but my dad passed away a long time ago,

when I was much younger.

I think I was 29 or 30 when my dad passed away.

Anyways, let's get back to the story.

I felt guilty.

I went back and I got the knife from under the hay,

and I was gonna keep the knife.

And I thought, "This is so cool. I've gotten this knife."

And then I felt extremely guilty.

And I ran to the man by his truck.

He was standing there talking to my dad.

I ran over and I said, "You forgot your knife."

And then what happened next,

I'll remember for a very long time.

He thanked me.

He was very, very thankful.

He just said, "Oh, thank you so much."

And he praised me for being such an honest person.

And I still feel funny about that because the reality is

that initially I wasn't an honest person.

Initially, I was going to steal his knife,

but I decided not to,

and I ran and I gave it back to him.

So just a little story about Bob the Canadian

from when he was a kid.

Hopefully you enjoyed it and I'll see you next Wednesday

with another "Wednesdays with Bob" video.