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"All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal." -Fran Lebowitz

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Rogue Trip Playlette - 22.07.2014

INT. BUS - 7:30AM

BILL sits in a window seat, listening to an Adam Carolla podcast on his iPhone as the bus pulls away from Melbourne. He laughs at something on the podcast. The OLD WOMAN sitting in the aisle seat next to him, wearing silver hair most likely cut around a silver bowl, looks at him. Bill laughs again. She continues to look until he meets her eye.

BILL: Oh. Sorry. This is just funny.

The old woman says nothing.

BILL: You know, you gotta have some entertainment when you're on the road, right?

Hearing something in the podcast, Bill laughs again. The old woman looks at him, and starts to bring her hands up in a "May I listen?" gesture but then, thinking better of it, stops and puts her hands down. Bill smiles.

Five minutes later, Bill coughs - once - and frowns as he sees the old woman pull up the collar of her coat over her nose in panic, like the baby in the chase scene of RAISING ARIZONA. But, still.