This happened about two years ago 

when I was working for a small family-owned business in London. 

It was a Friday afternoon and I was taking a tea break. 

I’d been doing the stocktaking all day and I was tired. 

The boss had gone out at lunchtime and hadn’t come back yet. 

But that was quite normal as he usually took long lunches.

I’d just finished my tea and was about to go back to work 

when a young man walked into the office and asked for ‘dad.’ 

When I asked him who he meant he said, ‘Arthur, the boss’. 

Then he said, ‘Oh, you’re new, aren’t you?’ 

Which was true as I had only been working there a few weeks. 

I told him Arthur had gone out and asked if I could help. 

He said he needed to pick something up from Arthur’s office and walked across the room and went in.

He sounded so convincing and was so confident 

that it never occurred to me to question what he’d told me.

Tenses analysis

This happened about two years ago when I was working for a small family-owned business in London. 

It was a Friday afternoon and I was taking a tea break. I’d been doing the stocktaking all day and I was tired.  The boss had gone out at lunchtime and hadn’t come back yet. But that was quite normal as he usually took long lunches.

I’d just finished my tea and was about to go back to work when a young man walked into the office and asked for ‘dad.’  When I asked him who he meant he said, ‘Arthur, the boss’. Then he said, ‘Oh, you’re new, aren’t you?’ 

Which was true as I had only been working there a few weeks. I told him Arthur had gone out and asked if I could help. He said he needed to pick something up from Arthur’s office and walked across the room and went in.

He sounded so convincing and was so confident that it never occurred to me to question what he’d told me.

Tenses analysis

This happened about two years ago when I was working for a small family-owned business in London. 

It was a Friday afternoon and I was taking a tea break. I’d been doing the stocktaking all day and I was tired.  The boss had gone out at lunchtime and hadn’t come back yet. But that was quite normal as he usually took long lunches.

I’d just finished my tea and was about to go back to work when a young man walked into the office and asked for ‘dad.’  When I asked him who he meant he said, ‘Arthur, the boss’. Then he said, ‘Oh, you’re new, aren’t you?’ 

Which was true as I had only been working there a few weeks. I told him Arthur had gone out and asked if I could help. He said he needed to pick something up from Arthur’s office and walked across the room and went in.

He sounded so convincing and was so confident that it never occurred to me to question what he’d told me.