Keith: Morning Tom
Tom: Morning Keith, how goes it?
Keith: Good thanks. I just wanted to ask you if you are likely to need me this week as I was thinking about going to see my parents in York. It doesn't matter which day it is but I wouldn't be available for two days.
Tom: Hmmn. Well I might have something to do on Wednesday afternoon for you, but it couold be done Thursday. Until then, it would be OK if you went off for a couple of days. If you can be on the phone at least?
Keith: No problem with phone calls. I will leave right away then.
Tom: Will you be taking the train, or?
Keith: I will probably drive it. It's already after rush hour and the advantage is if I take my car I can ferry them around a bit.
Tom: They don't have a car?
Keith: They sold it. My dad stopped driving after his stroke and my Mum finds that these days she is just too nervous to drive.
Tom: That's not unusual, as we get older. How old are your folks now, Keith?
Keith: Dad's turning 70 this year, Mum's 67. 
Tom: Well, that's not that old, really. But anyway I imagine that running a car on a pension is pointless when you have free bus passes and that.
Keith: Yes, but they do feel the lack of it when it comes to going to the garden centre and bringing back trees to plant or bags of soil.
Tom: yes, that's true
Keith: and that's what I'll be doing with them, improving the old garden a bit. 
Tom: OK. Well, give them my regards.
Keith: Will do, thanks.
Keith will leave for two days to his parents in York, to help them improve their old garden. Tom is okay with Keith coming back on Thursday but needs him on the phone. Keith's parents sold the car, so he will drive there and ferry them around a bit.