Script:
(narrator): Listen to a conversation about a man’s great-grandmother.
(man): I talked to my great-grandmother on the phone this morning.
(woman): Your great-grandmother? Do you talk with her often?
(man): I try to call her at least once a week. She’s a really wonderful woman, and she’s over eighty-five years old. I enjoy talking to her, because she’s so understanding and because she gives me good advice.
(woman): What advice did she have for you today?
(man): (laughs) She told me to be careful because a big storm is coming.
(woman): She said that a big storm is coming? Is she a weather forecaster?
(man): Not exactly. She says that she can feel it in her bones when a storm is coming. I know it sounds funny, but when she feels it in her bones that a storm is coming, she’s usually right.
(woman): That’s not actually so funny. When people get older, the tissue around their joints can become stiff and swollen. Just before a storm, the air pressure often drops, and this drop in air pressure can cause additional pressure and pain in swollen joints. So when your great-grandmother tells you she thinks a storm is coming, she probably has some aching in her joints from the decreasing air pressure.
(man): Then, I had better pay more attention to my great-grandmother’s weather forecasts!