Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Passage: Erica and David like to pay their bills together . They pay most of them during the last week of the month . She takes the bills out of the drawer where they had been put away as they came in . One by one they go through all the bills , checking to see that everything is as it should be . The cable bill and the car insurance are in Erica 's name , while the utilities and telephones are in David 's name . They each write checks for the bills , and then David writes a check for the rent on their apartment . Then they walk together to the mailbox to send off the bills . They always hold hands when they walk back from the mailbox . Question: When did they get out their checkbooks? Option1: before writing checks for the bills Option2: after sending the envelopes
Output (English): before writing checks for the bills