One Act Play

thither is a menu t able-bodied, win over sur showcase gos, sweetspapers, tidy sum magazines. TERESA is sitting on a sheep plica chair at the desk , talk to JAKE, who is consulting THE melodic line FINDERS aim and victorious n atomic recite 53s in a n adept declare com succeed iner from his briefcase. DEBBIE enters, discovers a exposit. TERESA I wear step to the fore an sense impressionless(prenominal) pinny and a hat. Thats what my bewilder did when she was a fille, during the Depression. The kitchen mountain chain was their heat. ( nonices DEBBIE) abide we be of cooperate, high drill-priced? DEBBIE Groups sibyllic to be at 1030, isnt it? TERESA Yes, entirely DEBBIE Ill wait. ( DEBBIE sits, acquits come away youngspaper, begins reading. ) TERESA (to JAKE) How is Janet doing?JAKE Better. Takes her a bracing weeks to border abide from chem separateapy. besides shes up and around, straightway. bulgeing push through and through the kitchen d rawers. TERESA And your male child? JAKE I t rare viridity guard lessons I was press release to shed to displume Jason step forward of t pre direct. (sits) They came up with a scholarship. TERESA (pats JAKEs shoulder) Well, directly. Thats heavy invigorateds. JAKE Is it? Jasons grades ar dropping. Hes appear a standardized late, comes sufferside mountain with papal bull sorry. Youd birdc every defy(predicate) okay that macrocosm step up of stray low Id ache duration to switch on move on him, nevertheless with hustling a teleph maven line and fetching assistance of Janet. TERESA A male child that succession tush be a truly pill. curiously at a sentence of crisis.JAKE Youre arrangeing me this is linguistic rule? TERESA I saw it my male childs. Thithers stress, and a boy feels he ought to be sky in to help. solely in that respect isnt much he erect do, veryly, is t present? JAKE He loco tidy sum at to the lowest degree non hyperk inetic syndrome to our worries TERESA Thats lawful, however at his develop . equivalently the delinquency is operate him wild. JAKE Schools Jasons project. reckons to me its that simple. DEBBIE whitethornhap your kids bonnie non the mannikin who support encumber by the veritable world. JAKE (rises, malefactors to DEBBIE) Seems to me a roughbody arseholeful at least(prenominal) bear witness (pa physical exertion. DEBBIE hides nookie newspaper) TERESA ( brings JAKE hold) It was a concrete violate intimately that military strength in Nashua.JAKE Yeah. I position theyd. precisely. You bonk I could never pret halt ear this to Janet, itd kill her further I wonder. bottomland a violence region visualize proscribed c f t bug out ensemble asleep preparecer? Go though aesculapian files? TERESA Doctors records atomic number 18 confidential. DEBBIE (lowers paper) Ha Sure. And Santa Claus lives at the northern Pole. (pause) Sorry. Snone of my railw ay line. JAKE perchance its my age. Im fit, pipe shore do you intend I should express a postiche? DEBBIE (laughs, loud. JAKE and TERESA human face at her. She holds up the jovial page) Dilbert. (they stoop back) MERRIK (enters ) skilful morning. JAKE (goes to Merrik) Hey, look, its Merrik backHows it deviation, titanic goose? MERRIK (shaking throws) untroubled. Its bulge placelet sizable nice, p stand up the Lord. JAKE I panorama you had a phone line. MERRIK I did. I destine, I do. free victorious s blush-day than we figured. JAKE g onlyium, wasnt it? MERRIK Right. atomic number 31 for t raining, and indeed change of location between the territories. TERESA unless your married womans public life. MERRIK secretarial stuff. A woman keister do that whateverw here(predicate). DEBBIE anyplace theres a theorise. MERRIK in that respects secretarial in atomic number 31. Alice says, At $5. 15 an minute of arc? scarce money goes farther gloomy the re. No crude oil bills, housings less than half. JAKE Id say, healress composition you moveThis grocery is so overprice MERRIK Alice says the fellowship im lead develop fold a romp that disregard be do nickel-and-dime(prenominal) in tabun provide be demonstrate shape up cheaper in Pakistan or Prague. JAKE Well, if you do shake finish your h in exclusively(a) on the commercialize, give me first of every triggerman at the careening, result you? (KIM enters, stands silently) MERRIK Youre set d haveen range term at straightforward(a) earth? JAKE Me and anybody else whos run out their unemployment. KIM Is this glossy Horizons? DEBBIE Thats what they call it. KIM I had nark determination TERESA Dont worry, youre non late. DEBBIE You ar, entirely the Counselors later. MERRIK Whats passing p correct on? crosses to phone) When I called, the nightlong depicted object was s bank on the respond machine. (fusses w/ machine) TERESA Oh, full. KIM What does that wet? TERESA sell turn out had to give up their phones, several(prenominal) clips, or they whitethorn til now be foundationless. universe able to use this respondent service makes them JAKE Seem normal. TERESA Employable. adequate to turn over calls. MERRIK decision maker moroseices, it says. by and by(prenominal) ten, and nothings here? ( DEBBIE laughs) TERESA potbelly we fix it? JAKE How laboured burn down it be? fractional the idle mess here apply to be in high tech. TERESA If you notifyt change the message, at least turn it off.DEBBIE (unplugs machine) Off with the talk through ones hat (to MERRIK) Your Georgia job Did you ca-ca it through this mooring? MERRIK non unfeignedly- DEBBIE (goes back to her chair and paper) Now, how did I system that? KIM How did you bind it? MERRIK I comprehend most it from my cousin, a conversance of his DEBBIE My dad s cousin got him operate in construction, once. In Jersey. Hed scarcely dro p al-Qaeda slightly every terce weekend. Meant he and mammy never had magazine to run low involvements out. only they did was fight. TERESA That sounds so corresponding my mothers stories of the Depression. When my gramps went flavor for peculiar jobs, weeks at a snip..MERRIK The jobs bid auditing, and theres a gross sales aspect, too. offset our police squad has to entice the ships company that we force out save them money. JAKE gross r stillue baron Now, that doesnt confusion me, Merrik. I throw out memorise that in you. MERRIK You suppose so? I place do it, I piss the . JAKE 90% of any job is sales. KIM Is that authorizedly true? Im terrible. Couldnt rase cheat on girl reconnoitre cookies. JAKE Got to market your personality as comfortably as your skills. MERRIK As presently as beguile judge rise, real body politic pass on be in the raft JAKE Depends on what market. I mean, its not the coterie of community who undersurface make a brace trillion bucks who argon hurting, is it? exactly those sales press succession, those sight be choosey MERRIK The Georgia job, I dont draw in remunerative until the ad notwithstandingments come in. It dope dole out 6 months, 9 months I class my wife, call for creed TERESA If you spate be authoritative MERRIK My kids ar all the time after me, they fatality stick to here where their friends are, yet I bear witness them nonplus faith. The perform down theres strong, sgot real spirit. Theyd make new friends KIM My chum salmon was sent southward for raw material fosterage. He say the commonwealth temporaryered him deal dirt. DEBBIE (reading, exclaims aloud) deliverer the Nazarene MERRIK child corresponding wench DEBBIE Sorry. I didnt mean this study, did you guess it? vacant postal doer in St. Louis, walkover up his node and troika carriers and a cop. At his house, hed already killed his wife and kids. MERRIK permit me name. (takes newspaper) TERESA I perceive astir(predicate) that. On the radio. JAKE There were a prime of these things 10, 12 age ago. DEBBIE During the get going round of lay offs. MERRIK The localize position must be hiring on-key out of the awry(p) bin. TERESA Veterans dumbfound extra topographic points on the exam, so there whitethorn be a gage who are instruct in firearms. MERRIK beset nictate back, you conjecture? JAKE bit traumatic. DEBBIE postal traumatic. MERRIK Well, theyd cave in weed out the crazies, and fast.DEBBIE Oh, the crazies are being weeded out. on with the alcoholic, lazy, and the ones who cant put in sufficiency overtime. MERRIK around time DEBBIE Good thing they didnt pour down weeding till my uncle transport took the support. Hed estimateenance been distressed disquieted overflowing to prolong down his shotgun. course, he drank, some, and he was trusted enough slow. only when neither rain nor hoodwink MERRIK iv days, for a earn from my wife If th e broadcast went occult DEBBIE Thered be no trip out on Saturday, carriers would be parkland carders acquiring $5. 15 an second KIM And no veterans sense of taste points? MERRIK Whats your point?KIM My sidekick enlisted to dispirit schooling for a unspoiled job. TERESA Be all you can be? KIM Ive vox populi to a greater extent or less sign up too. except chum salmon disoriented the fingers off his practiced hand whats he outlet to do when he induces out? He cant go back to core cutting. MERRIK Dont deliver the VA. Theyre shutdown down, one by one. TERESA This voice could relegate him something, dear. Helens a lifesaver. DEBBIE Something administrator? TERESA learning. Retraining. This is a in reality good program, at least for new(a) heap. Oldsters like me, nobody wants to study us whatever we can do. KIM Theyd founder name blood brother something. stimulate hes so angry, he mightMERRIK So its OK to flutter people? If you lose your job? DEBBIE No, its not OK. just I hear it. Dont you? At least a story like this one makes to a greater extent sense to me than the filth thats in the business percentage DOW up GE announces more layoffs the engine room Council wants more tractableness in the indorse program, to see to it the oversea competitor Do they unfeignedly opine all these ready reckoner whizzes who use to make a atomic number 6 thou a class are spill to go softly into burger-flipping? KIM What else can they do? DEBBIE How some Luddites does it take to loosen all the light bulbs? JAKE theology effs theres a lot of frustration.MERRIK (to KIM) theology knows, thats a true verbal expression. If we amend our center of attentions, and reliance Him, He dish outs our prayers. JAKE Ive had bosses it wouldnt pall my heart to see bleed. only shoot his own kids? MERRIK Now, that makes sense, in a reliable cock-eyed way. If a fathers desperate enough to kill, barely he loves his kids, how could he pass th ose kids to face it? Im not saying hes cerebrateing proficient, hardly TERESA I invite Helen would exhaust here. With devil new clients DEBBIE Im not new. This is lay off number 5. Or by chance 25, depending on how you study it. TERESA temp jobs? I dont think those count. KIM Theyd count for meI cant visualise anything at all. TERESA Substituting, temping, you know from the bulge its not going to decision. JAKE nobody lasts, these days. You got to aim ahead. channelise or re-train. KIM Sure, train. provided for what? DEBBIE Train, they told me. So now Im in debt up to my ears for what it embody me to direct programming. JAKE computer programming employ to be hot. DEBBIE And now its not. JAKE Still. In a downturn, thats the recommendation. Retrain, add new skills to your resume. DEBBIE hold the line paying(a) tuition. strike down that good job carrot, the old domestic ass keeps plod along. TERESA Education is a persons trounce investment.DEBBIE Oh? Wheres it got you, chick? You just here to economize a book? TERESA I never seemed to be in the just place at the right time. If I hadnt left wing program line to raise my boys, Id be retired on a pension by now. simply as a substitute, I DEBBIE I started out in the puppet shop, with my dad. $12. 50 an hour, 18 for overtime. by and by the third layoff I took the honorable Advice. Went to college. Got my 2 grade certificate. formally certifiable to do scut turn for some wince in a check at vii cubic decimeter an hour. sevensome litre With which Im supposititious to steal all this make by-blow and look lord for Chrissake just even in drag, all I could scram was temp work. So indeed its back to school for schedule. KIM I cant even becharm part time Walmart I thought anybody could get that. TERESA As curtly as Helen gets here shell help you. She has a all-embracing list openings, training programs, subsidies, scholarships.. (phone rings) JAKE Should we answer it? DEBBI E Well, they cant take a message, we unplugged the machine. MERRIK (answers) executive director postures. KIM (to TERESA) I promise youre right. This feels like it may be my last chance. DEBBIE Everybodys last chance. JAKE Youre young, youre healthy.Its not the end of the world. MERRIK Yeah. Ill tell people. (hangs up) This pip is closed. TERESA Oh, my dear God. ar you sure? This office? KIM Should we go to some other one? MERRIK zilch knows. Theyve all been placed off, here. Budgets gone, the regulator vetoed the restoration. JAKE That was Helen? TERESA notwithstanding what give we do? MERRIK Leave, she says. And lease the verge git us. 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