Two new sections:

Here's another two sections. This play is fleshing out to be more than a ten-minute. I'm kinda pleased.


Jennifer
[pulling out sunglasses] Mr Bigshot, master of the kill, metropolitan, cosmopolitan, manhattan ladykiller, the modern day barbarian. Swaggering back to the office after three or four vodka 'tini's, feeling like God on earth.

David
Not bad.

Jennifer
Thanks.

David
But... don't you think that's a little, women's lib?

Jennifer
Wait, what?

David
I mean, the guy could be gay. You're assuming--

Jennifer
He is not gay.

David
Why not? We live in a pretty diverse--

Jennifer
He's too cute.

David
Ha. That's great.

Jennifer
So what do you think?

David
[looks, squares up, gestures] He's an artist.

Jennifer
In armani.

David
Not that you'd know armani from men's warehouse, but he's got the suit on cause today's special. First opening kinda special, and he wants to get all spoofed up. But his nerves are all keyed up, right? So maybe he has a drink or two to calm them. Or three, or four.

Jennifer
So I was right about the drinking?

David
How could you not be? He's weaving more than Dean Martin after two sets.

Jennifer
[stage whisper] Damn.

David
What?

Jennifer
And here i thought you were a different kind of guy. I mean, “women's lib”?

David
So what? It's not like I told you to get in the kitchen.

Jennifer
Oh God! For thousands of years women have been fighting that exact--

David
Oh stop it. So you got a little vagina monologs on his ass. That's all I was saying.

Jennifer
I thought it was supposed to be about what we think.

David
Yeah, but it's no fun if everything is a stereotype. You stereotyped him, and that's boring. You're supposed to make something interesting.

Jennifer
[deep breath, starts to speak, stops. deep breath] Okay. Fine. Who's next?

David
What about her?

Jennifer
Okay, she's up. Yours or mine?

David
[suggestively] Oh, this one's all mine.
[Jennifer rolls her eyes. David stands. His posture is a mocking mimicry of a seductive woman: rolling hips, raised up on toes to suggest heels, pouting lips, etc.]

Jennifer
Oh what the hell is that supposed to be?

David
Somebody's idea of a good cover.

Jennifer
Cover?

David
It's her Clark Kent. She looks so ditzy, so sexy, so pretty that she looks perfectly harmless.

Jennifer
[w/ a glare] So pretty women are useless?

David
Whoa there, Ms. Second Wave

Jennifer
What?

David
Never-mind. First off, I said 'harmless' not 'useless,' and second off, it's not my fault it's true.

Jennifer
It's not. Pretty women are not harmeless.

David
Well you're certainly proof. Again, you're missing the point. She's not harmless, she's a fucking ninja. She just looks 'too pretty' to be harmful. That's her disguise.

Jennifer
I still think you're an ass.

David
I never said I wasn't. I'm right though, aren't I? She is too... too...

Jennifer
Perfect.

David
And perfect is

Jennifer
Boring.

David
Right on. Perfect is boring, which is why I'm out here in the first place.

Jennifer
Lemme guess. Got tired of Friends?

David.
Ew. God. No. But that's the idea.

Jennifer
'Cause it's too perfect.

David
Yup. 'Sides, I don't get to meet pretty women watching TV.

Jennifer
[pauses, then laughs] That was pathetic.

David
[less concerned than normal] Yeah, I know. [pause] Your turn.