a play (a work in progress)
by aqua
the setup: aqua is a researcher and works very hard. every day she dives and then goes around to fishermen to look at their catches. alot of her work is very physically demanding (which means she's muskling out her body and rocking the tan youknowwhati'msaying.....) she signed up for a program where people actually pay to come help her with her work. the volunteers pay the program, and the program pays the researcher part of the money to feed and house them and they help for two weeks at a time.
the time has arrived where two volunteers arrive at the airport. aqua drives to pick them up and as aqua walks to the terminal she holds up a sign with these people's names and to her shock and surprise the OLDEST LIVING COUPLE ON EARTH read the sign and wave her over. aqua considers bolting. but doesn't. she regrets this later.
scene from middle of play. after several days of taking these people out on the boat and having quickly learned they are not in the best shape for staying in the water longer than 10 minutes and can barely haul themselves back in the boat, aqua is wondering exactly what she can do with these people. then one afternoon they are sitting on the porch chatting and the couple mention there kids so to make conversation aqua asks about their kids (aqua really doesn't give a shit....)
aqua: so, how many kids do you have
D(the man): two of my own and two adopted
aqua: oh, so what made you decide to adopt kids
D : well, when i met my wife her mother was in a state facility with what they thought was MS. then we fell in love got married and had two kids. well by this time we received a letter that the mother actually had huntington's disease which is genetic and the kids had a 50% chance they would have it so we decided to not have anymore kids.
D proceeds to choke up and cry and aqua, slightly embarassed: oh i'm so sorry i didn't mean to ask about such an emotional subject
J (the wife): oh it's ok, he cries for no apparent reason except now that he's had several small strokes it happens more often
aqua (a little too loudly, a little too cheerfully): WOW! who needs another beer? I sure as hell can use one!
*end scene*
the setup: aqua is a researcher and works very hard. every day she dives and then goes around to fishermen to look at their catches. alot of her work is very physically demanding (which means she's muskling out her body and rocking the tan youknowwhati'msaying.....) she signed up for a program where people actually pay to come help her with her work. the volunteers pay the program, and the program pays the researcher part of the money to feed and house them and they help for two weeks at a time.
the time has arrived where two volunteers arrive at the airport. aqua drives to pick them up and as aqua walks to the terminal she holds up a sign with these people's names and to her shock and surprise the OLDEST LIVING COUPLE ON EARTH read the sign and wave her over. aqua considers bolting. but doesn't. she regrets this later.
scene from middle of play. after several days of taking these people out on the boat and having quickly learned they are not in the best shape for staying in the water longer than 10 minutes and can barely haul themselves back in the boat, aqua is wondering exactly what she can do with these people. then one afternoon they are sitting on the porch chatting and the couple mention there kids so to make conversation aqua asks about their kids (aqua really doesn't give a shit....)
aqua: so, how many kids do you have
D(the man): two of my own and two adopted
aqua: oh, so what made you decide to adopt kids
D : well, when i met my wife her mother was in a state facility with what they thought was MS. then we fell in love got married and had two kids. well by this time we received a letter that the mother actually had huntington's disease which is genetic and the kids had a 50% chance they would have it so we decided to not have anymore kids.
D proceeds to choke up and cry and aqua, slightly embarassed: oh i'm so sorry i didn't mean to ask about such an emotional subject
J (the wife): oh it's ok, he cries for no apparent reason except now that he's had several small strokes it happens more often
aqua (a little too loudly, a little too cheerfully): WOW! who needs another beer? I sure as hell can use one!
*end scene*
2 Comments:
At 9:44 AM,
Anonymous said…
ohhh no....*snort*...bwbwhaahahhaahahahahahahahahahahahaha....*tears*....lololololo........oh god I bursted out with laughter and scared my poor old cat...... WAY TO GO AKEE......she IS 14 ya know....
anywayssssssssss....
dude...thats too bad....any chance you can just give them a heavier weight belt and have them NOT able to come back up????? saves gas taking them back to the airport????
no? wrong? ah, ok
do they at least keep the porch clean??? that other guy didn't??? maybe they can clean and bake for you....oh god that was funny.....you're forgiven for the OVERDUE blog now........LOLOL
At 7:26 PM,
Anonymous said…
akee...you can always try and regain your loses and use them as fishie bait.
what?
they will get to see the fishies close up.
hee.
rookie is a teapot head!
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