WordGirl
Pestering
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Customers are pestering the bank teller, but what does "pestering" even mean?
Customers are pestering the bank teller at National National Bank, but one of them doesn't even understand what "pestering" means.
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WordGirl
Pestering
Clip | 1m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Customers are pestering the bank teller at National National Bank, but one of them doesn't even understand what "pestering" means.
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PLENTY OF CONFUSED CUSTOMERS ARE PESTERING THE BANK TELLER.
WAIT A MINUTE.
WAIT A MINUTE.
GRANNY MAY SAID WHAT?
FREE CAKE!
AND A DOLPHIN SHOW.
DOLPHINS?
WHY WOULD SHE SAY THAT?
THIS IS A BANK.
[MURMURING] OH, HEY, LOOK.
LOOK.
WE DO HAVE A DOLPHIN.
THAT DOESN'T COUNT.
WE WANT TO SEE A REAL DOLPHIN.
AND I WANT TO SEE REAL CAKE THAT'S REAL FREE.
I'M SO CONFUSED.
Announcer: BUT GRANNY MAY IS NOT CONFUSED.
SHE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT SHE'S DOING.
SHE'S ROBBING THE BANK.
ROBBING THE BANK?
I'M CALLING WORD GIRL.
WORD GIRL?
[PHONE RINGING AND VIBRATING] [SCREECH] [SCREECHING] NO DOLPHINS.
WHAT A RIP-OFF.
HOLD IT RIGHT THERE, GRANNY.
Announcer: BUT WORD GIRL WAS TOO LATE.
GRANNY MAY HAD ALREADY ESCAPED.
[SIGHS] WORD GIRL, AS LONG AS YOU'RE HERE, WILL YOU TELL THE CUSTOMERS TO STOP PESTERING ME?
I'M NOT PESTERING YOU...
I DON'T THINK.
WHAT DOES "PESTERING" MEAN?
WELL, THE WORD "PESTER" MEANS TO KEEP ANNOYING OR BOTHERING SOMEONE.
FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU KEPT ASKING THE BANK TELLER QUESTIONS THAT CONFUSED HER AND BUGGED HER, THEN YOU WERE PROBABLY PESTERING HER.
OH.
MAYBE WE WERE PESTERING HER.
SORRY FOR PESTERING YOU.
AND I'M SORRY WE DON'T HAVE ANY CAKE OR DOLPHINS.
WELL, GRANNY MAY'S BEHAVIOR IS PESTERING ME.
Announcer: WORD GIRL WOULD SOON GET ANOTHER CHANCE TO STOP GRANNY MAY, BECAUSE HER CRIME SPREE WAS JUST BEGINNING... YEP, THAT'S WHAT I FIGURED.
AS WE SEE ON HER NEXT EPISODE OF "GRANNY'S CORNER."
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