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What does the speaker think is naughty?
Leaving Mike to work alone
Paying the rent past the due date
Working on drawings with Zach
Talking about work when Zach is around
Why does the speaker mention a bus stop outside the house?
Many people would see the sign.
He loves to watch the buses go by.
He has a business fixing buses.
Zach uses the bus to get to school.
Why does Zach show an interest in wolves?
He read a story about one.
He enjoys pretending to be animals.
He has always been afraid of them.
He likes to play with a toy wolf.
What is this talk mainly about?
Renting out a house
Spending time doing what Zach wanted
Telling a story about a wolf
Working on cars with Mike

I once rented out a house, a couple of years ago.
And some of my friends lived there.
And they'd pay me rent.
And that would help me to  pay off the entire, sort of rent that I had to pay.
I ran a classic car restoration business  from that house, as well.
And  I had a garage.
And one of the people that lived there, Mike.
He was a mechanic.
And he'd do the work on the cars for me.
Sometimes I'd help him.
He'd tell me about, what problems he'd had, and what he needed, and what tools. That sort of thing.
And I'd do that.

It was a bit naughty.
But sometimes I'd do that when I had Zach as well.
Ordinarily I make the effort to just, be with him.
And do the things he wants to do.
And I try and do my work when I don't have him.
We were talking about something.
Mike and I and Zach.
Zach came up and he started pulling my hand,
'I want to do some drawing. I want to do some drawing.'
And I remember saying to him, 'Zach, look not now.'
And then, stopping and thinking, 'oh, this is all wrong.'
And, I turned round to Mike and said, 'Mike it will have to wait.'
That was okay, because he was working for me.
So that was that.
And I asked Zach what he wanted to do.
And he said he wanted to put up a sign outside the house that said, 'no big bad wolves were allowed in.'
Because, I think he'd just read a story.
What's that story.
The Three Little Piggies, where they get eaten up by an itinerant wolf.
We had a bus stop outside the house as well.
So we made up this sign, with one word on a piece A4 paper.
And we had about eight pieces or something.
We stuck them on this front wall outside the house.
And it said, 'no big bad wolves allowed here.'
And Zach had decided this was the sentence that he wanted.
So we stuck that outside the house.
And I remember that these persons would just pull up, and stop.
And all of, hehe, these people would, sort of, read the sign and think, 'what.'
And the sign stayed up there for a good week.
I think ten days before it finally came down.
That says it all really about my household.