CAST

SUBWAY GIRL #1
A perky Latina in her early 20's

SUBWAY GIRL #2
A tall, thin white girl in her early 20's. Wishes she were black.

BUCK and HENRY
A couple of rough, tough, blue-collar workers. They are dressed in dirty overalls and have facial stubble.

DR. MANN
A neat and clean gentleman in his 50's.

PIXIE
A 35 year old housewife and mother of an infant.




SCENE 1
A SUBWAY restaurant in New York. It's lunchtime. Seated at one table are BUCK and HENRY. Another table seats DR. MANN. The last table hosts PIXIE and her baby girl. ROB enters the restaurant and approaches the counter. There is no one else on line.

SUBWAY GIRL #1
Hi, what can I get you?

ROB
A foot long ham and provolone on regular Italian bread.

(GIRL #1 begins to prepare the sandwich)

BUCK
I heard it was 150,000 still left to be counted

HENRY
But that doesn't count the absentee ballots.

GIRL #1
Do you want any cheese?

ROB
On my ham and provolone? Yes. Provolone, please.

BUCK
Right, or the provisionals

DR. MANN
How many was Bush leading by?

BUCK
I don't even think all the votes are in, yet.

ROB
(turns around to face tables)
Kerry just conceded.

BUCK, HENRY, DR. MANN
He did?

ROB
Yeah, just a few minutes ago.

GIRL #1
Hey, what does that mean, “conceded?” Does that mean he won?

ROB
No, it means he gave up. He decided it wasn't worth the fight, so he basically gave up.

GIRL #1
Like a forfeit?

ROB
Right.

DR. MANN
I'm a liberal Democrat.

(Everyone stops what they are doing, unable to comprehend a response to this)

PIXIE
Did he say anything else?

ROB
There'll be a speech at 1:00. He's giving a speech at 1:00. So he hasn't said anything yet.

GIRL#2
(comes out from back area)
Bush won?

GIRL #1
Yeah! I'm so upset, man!

(Both girls are grinning with youthful stupidity)

GIRL #2
I know that sucks! This country gonna go down the drainers!

BUCK
Well, he'd better get bin Laden now!

ROB
Why? He doesn't have to do anything now. He's got a completely Republican government and no chance of ever running for re-election. He's got absolutely no accountability anymore.

GIRL #1
Any vegetables?

ROB
What?

GIRL #1
Do you want any vegetables on your sandwich?

ROB
(as if waking from a realistic dream)
Uh…yeah…Um…
(closes eyes)
tomatoes and olives

PIXIE
Well, you could say that about any president in their second term. They always promise stuff and never do it.

ROB
Yeah, well, I don't even like what this guy is promising me.

PIXIE
(pauses a beat)
Well, I guess that's just a fundamental difference.

HENRY
Everybody must like him because he's so moral

ROB
MORAL? This is a guy who claims he wants to create a “culture of life” in this country, yet he killed more convicts while he was governor than any other in the country! This is a guy who kills a thousand of our people and 100,000 Iraqis, and he's telling me “all life is precious?”

PIXIE
Well, how else do you propose we take care of things there?

ROB
Don't! Don't take care of things there!

PIXIE
BUT THEY ATTACKED OUR COUNTRY!

ALL
NO THEY DIDN'T!

ROB
Al Quaida attacked us, not Iraq! We were right to go to Afghanistan and find them and kill them. But why did we stop and go to Iraq? We have Saddam in custody, but bin Laden is still out there!

DR. MANN
Yes, he came out with a video last week, right?

PIXIE
Well, I shouldn't talk about this because I don't really follow this stuff to much, but I thought Saddam was working with bin Laden, like they were partners.

ROB
Not even close! Bin Laden is a religious fanatic who hates for bringing our culture to his land, among other reasons. He is a rabid Islamic freak. Saddam is a secular leader who, in bin Laden's opinion, has ruled the country as an infidel! Bin Laden hates Saddam Hussein!

PIXIE
Well, I'm just telling you what I heard.

ROB
Well, I'm just telling you what's really going on.

GIRL #1
Will this be in Newsday?

ROB
(waits a beat)
What?

GIRL #1
Will Kerry's…um…you giving up…will that be in the paper today?

ROB
Uh…no….probably tomorrow

GIRL #2
And the speech? Do you think that will be in the newspaper tomorrow?

ROB
(searches their faces for…anything)
Yeah. Yes, I'm sure this will all be in tomorrow's Newsday.

GIRL #2
Oh, I gotta get a paper tomorrow, yo.


THE END





Now, this story is completely true. But upon writing this, I've come to realize that the Subway represents America as a whole. The counter girls symbolize the apathetic and ignorant youth who just want to rebel for the sake of it, but don't really care. Buck and Henry represent middle-to-lower class working families. Dr. Mann is a variation of the counter girls. He missed out on the 60's and wants desperately to try the whole “protesting thing,” but he's too far into the establishment. Pixie is your typical Bush lover. A mindless drone who believes what you tell her. I represent the sane, free-thinker who can't understand how the whole world got so stupid around him.