Conversation at the Gym
Deb is at the gym. She is on the treadmill. A Random Sweaty Guy approaches her. Deb takes off her ear buds.
Random Sweaty Guy: Hey, you going to be on much longer?
Deb: Probably another 30 minutes.
Random Sweaty Guy: You’re only allowed 30 minutes.
Deb: Actually, that’s only during peak hours. It’s not peak hours right now.
Random Sweaty Guy stomps his feet and pouts.
Random Sweaty Guy: I’m telling on you.
Deb puts her ear buds back in.
Conversation with CT from The Real World
Deb and Friend are the bar, The Belmont, in Los Angeles. They are about to end their night when they run into CT from The Real World.
Friend: CT. We watch the challenges and you’re ridiculous.
Deb: …and we don’t like the way you treat people. Why are you so angry?
CT: Nah, nah, nah. It’s all edited. You wouldn’t get it. Nah, nah, nah.
Friend: We were both video production majors, I assure you, we get it.
CT: Nah, nah, nah.
Friend:You’re a douchebag.
CT: Nah, nah, nah.
Deb:Yah, yah, yah.
CT motions to the Bouncer.
CT:These two are train-wrecks.
Bouncer kicks Deb and Friend out of the bar.
Deb: I don’t think I want to live in a city where CT from the Real World gets me kicked out of a bar.
Deb addresses Bouncer.
Deb: We can still come back next weekend, right?
Conversation at Brunch
Deb and friends have just finished brunch at Cafe Orlin on St. Marks. Deb’s two friends leave the table. Deb is a little behind them and notices that her friend’s bag accidentally knocks a pita on another bruncher’s table onto the floor. Friend does not notice and continues to leave.
The Bruncher’s stare at the pita on the floor.
Bruncher # 1: This is so annoying.
Bruncher # 2: That is really annoying.
Bruncher # 1: I mean, like seriously, this is really annoying.
Bruncher # 2: It really is. Annoying.
Bruncher # 1 and # 2 notice Deb. They glare at her and then at the pita.
Bruncher # 2: Like seriously, Bruncher #1, this is extremely annoying.
Bruncher #1: I mean, like, you know, I don’t know what to do because this is so annoying.
Bruncher # 2 takes another bite of her own pita. In between bites, she speaks.
Bruncher #2: It really is. Annoying.
Conversation with a Parent
Deb is on the phone with her Mother. Mother has called for a recap of last night’s date.
Deb: It was fun. We went to a tapas bar.
Mother: What?
Deb: A tapas bar. It was fun.
Mother: Did you know he was going to take you there?
Deb: Yeah. It was really good.
Mother: I had no idea you liked that sort of thing.
Deb: Yeah. It was one of the better tapas places that I’ve been to actually.
Mother: How often do you go to these sort of places?
Deb: I don’t know. On occasion I guess. When you come to visit, I’ll take you. I think you’ll really like it.
Mother: I’m not going to a top-less bar.
Deb: I said tapas.
Silence.
Deb: Hello?
Mother: This whole time I thought you were saying you enjoyed going to top less bars.
Conversation with Time Warner Customer Service
Deb is having problems with her cable and is on the phone with Time Warner. A Customer Service Guy has told Deb to restart her cable box. They wait for it to start back up.
Customer Service Guy: So, how come you don’t have a date tonight?
Deb: Um.
Conversation with a Guy
Deb is on the phone with a Guy. He has just told a joke. Before Deb has a chance to laugh, he speaks.
Guy: So what I just said was funny because…
Deb: Guy, you don’t have to explain to me why a joke is funny.
Guy: Oh yeah. Sorry. Sometimes I forget that you’re smart.
Conversation on the 6 Train
Deb is on the subway. A Random Woman chats with her.
Random Woman:How about that Rihanna?
Deb: I know, so sad.
Random Woman: I don’t know about that. There are always two sides of every situation.
Deb: Huh?
Random Woman:Everyone is all, oh boo-hoo Rihanna, and boo-boo Chris Brown. What if I told you, she hit him first?
Deb: Um.
Random Woman: That’s what I heard. She hit Chris Brown first. She punched him right in the face.
Deb looks around the subway car.
Random Woman:See, now you’re all, oh boo-hoo Chris Brown, and boo-boo Rihanna. Two sides. I think the truth needs to finally get out there.
Conversation via Voicemail
Deb has a voicemail from a Guy that she is randomly being set up with.
Guy: Hi Deb? It’s, ah, Guy. Ah, my mom has been annoying me to call you. Ah, so I’m calling. Ah. Alright. Call me back and we can set up a time to meet up. Ah. Alright. My mom told me I had to ask you to dinner but ah, maybe we’ll just get a cup of coffee. Get this over with. Ah. Alright. Ah. Looking forward to hearing from…whatever, just call me back.
Conversation with a Commercial Agent
Deb is living in Los Angeles. She cannot act. A friend mails out her head shots and resumes to commercial agents. She gets a meeting with a commercial agent.
Commercial Agent: So Deb, your resume says you can do accents and dialects.
Deb: It does?
Commercial Agent: What sort of accents do you do?
Deb: Um.
Commercial Agent waits for Deb to answer.
Deb: It’s really, um, more New York based. I can do Long Island, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens. Oh, and some parts of New Jersey.
Commercial Agent ends meeting.
Conversation While Sitting in the Back Seat
Deb is in the back seat of her parent’s car. Her Father lowers the volume of the radio.
Father: I was flipping through the channels and what’s her name was on…O-frah.
Mother: Oprah.
Father: And O-frah had some lady on and she was talking about something. And then they talked about this book that O-frah liked…
Mother: Oprah.
Father: …and it was all about something, relationships. And the lady talked about this thing that she had online and the jerks she met but then after reading some book that O-frah recommended she felt better. Anyway, Deb, that’s what you should. All you have to do is make this thing, that’s online, and you get dates. I think people really like this O-frah. Do you like O-frah?
Deb: I love O-frah.
Father: Another thing O-frah said…
Mother raises volume of the radio back up and drowns out Father.
