For your reading enjoyment. . .
Oct. 15th, 2001 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinue. . .I shall reenact my arrival home yesterday.
/ROMIE and VAL walk through the door of their APARTMENT, having spent the past ten hours in a CAR driving from KANSAS where TURTLE'S SISTER lives because TURTLE leaves for ENGLAND in ten days and she wanted to see her. Car trips with ROMIE and VAL are always very interesting things because they have completely opposite STYLES. VAL is very GOAL ORIENTED whereas ROMIE wants to take every single TURNOFF.
/VAL inevitably wins these arguments, even when ROMIE is driving. Nobody is sure how.
/Moreover, ROMIE espoused a lot of EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHY on the last leg of the trip to the effect that the WORLD would be a better place if EVERYONE did more DRUGS. Mostly this was a metaphor for the PITCH BLACK DARKNESS OF HER SOUL. As a strange PROTEST, she refused to EAT all day. It really brought down the MOOD even though she APOLOGIZED and the last half hour in particular was upsetting to VAL.
/ROMIE, on the other hand, feels very UPLIFTED./
ROMIE: Hark! Six whole messages on the answering machine! And now I may have soup!
VAL: (darkly) I'm going for a walk.
/VAL storms OUT. ROMIE eats SOUP and checks the MESSAGES/
ANSWERING MACHINE: (upbeat) Ha ha ha, I just love that message. This is Sharon's mom, I'm just calling because I'm worried about you guys -- six highly dangerous murderers just escaped from prison right by you and one girl in your neighborhood has already been abducted.
ROMIE: (reacts)
/ROMIE runs out into the NIGHT, but cannot find VAL. She CONTEMPLATES getting worried and PARANOID and making tearful SPEECHES about how the two parted on BAD TERMS, but instead she SHRUGS and returns to the APARTMENT to eat SOUP and continue checking the MESSAGES because VAL is quite capable of handling HERSELF. These things HAPPEN.
/Although ROMIE cannot know this, VAL is in fact perfectly ALL RIGHT and sits on a BENCH in the DARK by the CREEK worrying about ALIGATORS for 40 minutes until a POLICEMAN repeatedly checks to make sure she's FINE./
/CUT TO 15 MINUTES LATER. ROMIE is unloading the DISHWASHER./
ROMIE: Damnit, who was that mysterious voice on the fourth answering machine message? She sounded as though she knew me, but the name was garbled. Damnit.
/CUT TO 3 MINUTES LATER. ROMIE is making TEA./
ROMIE: DAMNIT, who WAS that mysterious voice on the ANSWERING MACHINE?
/CUT TO 1 MINUTE LATER. ROMIE has listened to the offending MESSAGE at least 6 times./
ROMIE: DAMNIT!
/VAL walks through the DOOR. She is a bit MUDDY but otherwise GOOD./
ROMIE: Run into any mass murderers?
VAL: Nope.
ROMIE: Oh good.
VAL: Any messages on the machine?
ROMIE: Six in fact! There was one from your mom, one from your sister, one from my parents acting like chainsmoking French women, one from Uncle Rex acting like a panhandle horny toad, one from the phone company, and one from Dee. OH MY GOD!!!!
VAL: Tea too hot?
ROMIE: Not a bit of it. THERE'S A MESSAGE FROM DEE ON MY ANSWERING MACHINE.
/ROMIE proceeds to listen to the answering machine MESSAGE 3 more TIMES. Then she SAVES it so that she can listen to it MORE times as it SUITS her./
VAL: What's this about escaped murderers?
/ROMIE and VAL walk through the door of their APARTMENT, having spent the past ten hours in a CAR driving from KANSAS where TURTLE'S SISTER lives because TURTLE leaves for ENGLAND in ten days and she wanted to see her. Car trips with ROMIE and VAL are always very interesting things because they have completely opposite STYLES. VAL is very GOAL ORIENTED whereas ROMIE wants to take every single TURNOFF.
/VAL inevitably wins these arguments, even when ROMIE is driving. Nobody is sure how.
/Moreover, ROMIE espoused a lot of EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHY on the last leg of the trip to the effect that the WORLD would be a better place if EVERYONE did more DRUGS. Mostly this was a metaphor for the PITCH BLACK DARKNESS OF HER SOUL. As a strange PROTEST, she refused to EAT all day. It really brought down the MOOD even though she APOLOGIZED and the last half hour in particular was upsetting to VAL.
/ROMIE, on the other hand, feels very UPLIFTED./
ROMIE: Hark! Six whole messages on the answering machine! And now I may have soup!
VAL: (darkly) I'm going for a walk.
/VAL storms OUT. ROMIE eats SOUP and checks the MESSAGES/
ANSWERING MACHINE: (upbeat) Ha ha ha, I just love that message. This is Sharon's mom, I'm just calling because I'm worried about you guys -- six highly dangerous murderers just escaped from prison right by you and one girl in your neighborhood has already been abducted.
ROMIE: (reacts)
/ROMIE runs out into the NIGHT, but cannot find VAL. She CONTEMPLATES getting worried and PARANOID and making tearful SPEECHES about how the two parted on BAD TERMS, but instead she SHRUGS and returns to the APARTMENT to eat SOUP and continue checking the MESSAGES because VAL is quite capable of handling HERSELF. These things HAPPEN.
/Although ROMIE cannot know this, VAL is in fact perfectly ALL RIGHT and sits on a BENCH in the DARK by the CREEK worrying about ALIGATORS for 40 minutes until a POLICEMAN repeatedly checks to make sure she's FINE./
/CUT TO 15 MINUTES LATER. ROMIE is unloading the DISHWASHER./
ROMIE: Damnit, who was that mysterious voice on the fourth answering machine message? She sounded as though she knew me, but the name was garbled. Damnit.
/CUT TO 3 MINUTES LATER. ROMIE is making TEA./
ROMIE: DAMNIT, who WAS that mysterious voice on the ANSWERING MACHINE?
/CUT TO 1 MINUTE LATER. ROMIE has listened to the offending MESSAGE at least 6 times./
ROMIE: DAMNIT!
/VAL walks through the DOOR. She is a bit MUDDY but otherwise GOOD./
ROMIE: Run into any mass murderers?
VAL: Nope.
ROMIE: Oh good.
VAL: Any messages on the machine?
ROMIE: Six in fact! There was one from your mom, one from your sister, one from my parents acting like chainsmoking French women, one from Uncle Rex acting like a panhandle horny toad, one from the phone company, and one from Dee. OH MY GOD!!!!
VAL: Tea too hot?
ROMIE: Not a bit of it. THERE'S A MESSAGE FROM DEE ON MY ANSWERING MACHINE.
/ROMIE proceeds to listen to the answering machine MESSAGE 3 more TIMES. Then she SAVES it so that she can listen to it MORE times as it SUITS her./
VAL: What's this about escaped murderers?
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Date: 2001-10-15 11:46 pm (UTC)