[originaltext]W: I’m sorry, but I can’t let you check out these books. M: What

W: I’m sorry, but I can’t let you check out these books.
M: What do you mean?
W: Wow, the computer shows that(1)you got an overdue book, How to Sell Your Own Art Work, out since last June. And(l)your borrowing privilege is cancelled until you return it.
M: But that’s impossible. I only started going to this school last month and I’m a business major, not an artist.
W: Hum. This is pretty strange. Let me look up the records. OK. You are Robert Smith?
M: Yeah.
W: You live at fourteen twenty-three west Canal Street?
M: Hum?(2)No, I am living on campus, in the new building. My full name is Robert James Smith, but I usually go by Bob.
W: Let me check one more thing on the computer. Aha, I see now. There’s another Robert Smith in the class ahead yours. A Robert El Smith. And it looks like he’s the one who got that overdue book checked out.
M: Another Robert Smith? No kidding.
W: So I guess you two never met.
M: No, but I think I should probably try. I could at least warn him what’s just happened.
W: Good idea. Now I’ll let you check out these books today. But(3)I suggest you start using your middle name, or mid initial to avoid any problem like this in the future.