SERVICE ORDER
page 8 SKIP No, I mean, come on. You’re not exactly the freshest breeze blowing across the glen this afternoon, are you? I mean you don’t think you are, right? PAULA What’s a glen? SKIP A glen? PAULA Yeah. SKIP I don’t know, like a meadow. PAULA A meadow? SKIP No, or a–… Yeah, okay. A meadow. FELTON It’s not a meadow. PAULA That’s right. He’s right. It’s not a meadow. SKIP Not a meadow? PAULA No. FELTON A glen is a long, usually quite narrow, valley. PAULA Not a meadow, at all. SKIP Okay, fine. PAULA Look at that. Mr. Know-it-all who used it in a sentence (and who has the gall to call me Ms. Smarty-pants) doesn’t know what a glen is. FELTON That is kind of surprising. SKIP Aren’t there meadows in valleys? PAULA Meadows in valleys? SKIP Can we just change the subject? PAULA Sure there are meadows in valleys. FELTON And forests in foothills. PAULA There might even be meadows in glens. SKIP Why is this— PAULA “ And mare’s eat oats, and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy.” |
