Dialogue
shouting out the kitchen, Jake advertised "If its UPS, tell them I'm not here."
pointer finger pressing talk on the intercom, Scott answered
"who is it?"
"Is Penny there?"
"Penny who?"
"Penny, my girlfriend, she told me she was coming here?"
"Here as in 3L, or here as in this building?"
"This is 3L? Sorry thought you were 3i, they really ought to fix that lettering."
"I've been telling them the same thing since I signed the lease. Hope you find your girlfriend
"Could you stop talking while I buzz, 3i . Scott left him on static after stop
Easing back into his mold, Scott flipped through Jake's GQ, delivered only as a gimmick to his new cologne that would "make the ladies drip" in fact it would make the ladies drip, their faces melting off like skin to corrosive acid.
"Long showers never appealed to me. I think they are only for the drenching flesh of Brooks Brother's executives. My skin starts to dry up after too long."
Jake left the kitchen mouth full of Fairway's Best stuffed olives and a turkey club-wheat bread, turkey bacon, turkey cuts, miracle whip all in his right hand.
"Do you think Brooks Brothers will take travelers checks?" he said, sitting next to me turning from HGTV to Spike's Manswers.
"How do those executives shoes shine? Their Louis Vuitton glowing as if scrubbed by the hands of apollo, or a prism reflecting the shards of sun on a cloudy day . But they just usually go to those little places, underneath their jobs,my grandfather owns one of those places."
" Shoe polish, I havent used that...ever, I did watch Clerks recently though. Doesn't Dante use shoe polish? Now there's a character, Dante."
Good. Now imagine the same scenario, but this time Jake wants desperately to tell Scott about his decision to leave school. He can't say that, but you can try to imagine what he WOULD say--about Brooks Brothers or whatever the subject--if leaving were on his mind.
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