Writer Profile: Baker-Street-Irregular

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Favorite films/plays Watchmen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Invention of Love, The Road to El Dorado
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WAL

So... is this our rent money?

reg

This is all our money.

WAL

(hopeful)

For the week?

REG

Don't be an idiot - for the month. Now shut up and let me think... Rent... car... that leaves us... Um. Ten dollars for food.

WAL

Time to go fishing.

REG

We can't afford the bait.

WAL

I've heard the shiny type of gum wrapper works.

REG

MacGuyver is not real, Wally.

WAL

That doesn't mean it's not true.

REG

Look, just... Just give me a minute. I'll figure this out.

WAL

We could get rid of the car.

REG

I need it to get to work.

WAL

There's a bus.

REG

It costs money.

WAL

The car costs more.

REG

(Long pause. Sigh.)

So we'll sell the car.

WAL

Good.

REG

If no one buys it, we'll just let them reposess it. Neither of us has good credit right now, anyway, so that doesn't matter...

WAL

So how much do we have left for food if we drop the car payments?

REG

Enough not to starve.

WAL

You didn't even recount.

REG

I'm afraid to.

WAL

Think positive, Reggie!

REG

Kind of hard to do when I can fit this month's cash into a baseball cap.

WAL

So don't recount. Come on - it's Friday. We're still eating out on Fridays, right?

reg

Yeah. Yeah, of course... We'll stop at the convenience store on the way back. We're out of milk. And rice. And bread. And-

Wal

Stop it. Let's take the car - might as well use it while we can.

REG

Might as well.

Exit WAL and REG, stage right. Stage lights fade to black.

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