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1: I told her that I would put the goddamn toilet seat down when she start ed to put the goddamn toilet seat UP.
2: She didn't like that?
1: I should say not.
2: Well, there is an upside.
1: Which is?
2: We ARE out drinking.
(glasses clink - they set them down & then each stare absently or deeply into them for a while)
1: What IS this we're drinking?
2: Don't ask.
1: No, really...
2: ...I'm not sure.
1: Ah .
(another semi-lengthy pause after which they begin their next lines simul taneously)
1: The PROBLEM is that I no longer... I'm sorry, go ahead.
2: You see, the reason that no one ever... What did you say..?
1: I suppose the safest thing is to ask, the absinthe? Or the Bosco?
2: What?
1: Maybe it's Ovaltine...
2: Ah, you're drunk.
1: (knowing look) So, you were saying?
2: Oh, we were in one of those silences where my head was going into the weird place.
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