(Characters: Curtis, Daniel
Setting: Parking garage, Galleria del Mar, Rayuela entrance. 3 p.m.)
Curtis: Simoncito let the cat out of the bag.
Daniel: Which cat would that be.
Curtis: The promotion the big kick upstairs congratulations and long time coming and all that.
Daniel: They’re calling it a promotion now.
Curtis: Looks like it smells like it walks like it.
Daniel: It’s a bribe and you know it.
Curtis: Ow ow kill me with kindness please.
Daniel: You’d jump at it I take it.
Curtis: In a digitalis heartbeat
baby.
Daniel: You could live with.
Curtis: And sleep like a baby.
Daniel: You’re in a minority.
Curtis: Then the entire fifth floor’s in a minority oh and the secretarial pool and the garage and most of the ghosts on the beat.
Daniel: Simon told you.
Curtis: Simoncito’s all gossip and no judgment.
Daniel: So Simon figures.
Curtis: Listen to me.
Daniel: I always do.
Curtis: There is no figuring with Simon he’s not that kind of bird he’s still puzzling the collapse of Marriage Number One and what is it.
Daniel: Fourth time last October.
Curtis: Right so take it for what it is.
Daniel: Unpoisoned.
Curtis: Not a drop not a malicious bone etcetera just running at the mouth and.
Daniel: Ignore it or.
Curtis: And he’s happy for you by the way for what that’s worth.
Daniel: Love me love my umbrella.
Curtis: A corner office isn’t exile.
Daniel: Antarctica Region I seem to remember you once saying.
Curtis: Callow youth witty callow youth I grant you but barking out the wrong muzzle.
Daniel: Lie back and enjoy it then.
Curtis: Don’t kid yourself it won’t be all roses and jam tarts you’ll earn your pay they’ll have you an overtime cot snug by the bubbler by week’s end.
Daniel: And the foxes.
Curtis: The foxes haven’t got far to run.
Daniel: Let them eat the hens and look the other way.
Curtis: It’s a phenomenon known as waiting for the right time and don’t worry the axe won’t rust.
Daniel: Who put Simon up to it I wonder.