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Monologue Mania July 13, 2014 Day # 151 by Janet S. Tiger Fraud
(from God's Coffee Shop, first production today! as part of the Fringe Festival. Wonderful show -thank you to the whole cast, director, crew and Hannah Logan and That24HourThing!)
by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved
[email protected]
(Anna is angry, she is pushed to the edge and is finally exploding- even the flower in her hair is angry!)
Fraud! It was not a fraud! I served fresh coffee every day! I never kept the old for the next day! I wash out those pots and make sure everything I used is clean!
Okay, maybe I misled people about where the coffee was from, but…..so what? It was safe! I never heard of anyone dying from drinking coffee from Von's! And do you really know where anything comes from when you go into any restaurant? Are you truly concerned when a big company is caught selling kangaroo meat? Or horse meat? Or......and this is probably the worst- rat meat!
No, you buy it and you pour ketchup on it and you smile and say it isn't good for you, and it clogs your arteries and is killing you, but you eat it anyways - after you pay $4.00! And then you come here, and you pay two dollars for a cup of coffee, when the cup costs me ten cents, and the coffee costs me and the sugar you dump in - and the electricity - and the twenty napkins you stuff in your pocket!.....and maybe after all my expenses, I end up with fifty cents!
And I put up with all of you people telling the same stories week in and week out and fighting with each other over who was here first and who can talk to who and whether it's fair that you can't bring back an empty cup in two days and get a refill for half price......and you complain that I lied about the beans!
(She snorts and then shakes a finger) And you, Mister Jeffrey, you say you’re observant! And you notice which ear my flower is on, but you are blind in so many ways! This nice woman, Mrs. Donnehy, who you sit with and talk to every day! She likes you, she wants to do more than have coffee with you! And she lives here and she likes your writing, and she is in front of you like the coffee – but after six years, you don't even know her first name! You can’t see your own future.....because you are so……Goddamn BLIND!
(She wipes her hands together and turns to leave, looks back, takes a flower from her hair)
Here, Mrs. Donnehy, this is for you....wear it in good health! I quit!
(She throws the flower into the audience - or hands it to an audience member, whichever works best - and exits. The end)
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Janet S. Tiger 858-736-6315
www.JanetSTiger.weebly.com
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
- for a whole year!
If you just started this blog and want to read the earlier monologues, please
scroll down for the previous days or go to http://www.monologuestore.com/ -click on the Monologue Mania button please scroll down.
To start at the beginning - Feb. 13, - click here.
For a list of the blurbs from each day, click here
Help a playwright and get more great award-winning monologues - MonologueZone.com
Thank you for your comments - and for liking and sharing this site
--------------------------------------------------------------
Monologue Mania July 13, 2014 Day # 151 by Janet S. Tiger Fraud
(from God's Coffee Shop, first production today! as part of the Fringe Festival. Wonderful show -thank you to the whole cast, director, crew and Hannah Logan and That24HourThing!)
by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved
[email protected]
(Anna is angry, she is pushed to the edge and is finally exploding- even the flower in her hair is angry!)
Fraud! It was not a fraud! I served fresh coffee every day! I never kept the old for the next day! I wash out those pots and make sure everything I used is clean!
Okay, maybe I misled people about where the coffee was from, but…..so what? It was safe! I never heard of anyone dying from drinking coffee from Von's! And do you really know where anything comes from when you go into any restaurant? Are you truly concerned when a big company is caught selling kangaroo meat? Or horse meat? Or......and this is probably the worst- rat meat!
No, you buy it and you pour ketchup on it and you smile and say it isn't good for you, and it clogs your arteries and is killing you, but you eat it anyways - after you pay $4.00! And then you come here, and you pay two dollars for a cup of coffee, when the cup costs me ten cents, and the coffee costs me and the sugar you dump in - and the electricity - and the twenty napkins you stuff in your pocket!.....and maybe after all my expenses, I end up with fifty cents!
And I put up with all of you people telling the same stories week in and week out and fighting with each other over who was here first and who can talk to who and whether it's fair that you can't bring back an empty cup in two days and get a refill for half price......and you complain that I lied about the beans!
(She snorts and then shakes a finger) And you, Mister Jeffrey, you say you’re observant! And you notice which ear my flower is on, but you are blind in so many ways! This nice woman, Mrs. Donnehy, who you sit with and talk to every day! She likes you, she wants to do more than have coffee with you! And she lives here and she likes your writing, and she is in front of you like the coffee – but after six years, you don't even know her first name! You can’t see your own future.....because you are so……Goddamn BLIND!
(She wipes her hands together and turns to leave, looks back, takes a flower from her hair)
Here, Mrs. Donnehy, this is for you....wear it in good health! I quit!
(She throws the flower into the audience - or hands it to an audience member, whichever works best - and exits. The end)
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Janet S. Tiger 858-736-6315
www.JanetSTiger.weebly.com
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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